For many years, one of AT&T’s Long Line microwave relay towers stood in Pleasant Lake, Indiana. The tower was built around 19601. Despite its proximity to the tower in Angola, the two didn’t interface. Pleasant Lake’s relayed a signal from 28.5 miles away in West Unity, Ohio, to another tower 28 miles away near Albion2.
Nearby, Angola’s tower sent a signal from Bryan, Ohio, to LaGrange4. After the Long Lines program ended, an AT&T successor sold the Pleasant Lake tower in 20013. Google satellite imagery reveals the tower was dismantled between 1998 and 2005. Today, only its service bunker remains.
Sources Cited
1 Parcel 761124000009000017 (2023). Office of the Assessor. Steuben County [Angola]. Web. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
2 Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
3 (See footnote 1).
