The concrete Long Line tower east of Goshen is another of ATT’s structures that dates to 1950. Built as part of the company’s first transcontinental microwave route from New York to Chicago, it’s 26 feet square1 and rises 133 feet above the hillside2.
Originally, Goshen’s Long Line tower relayed a signal from a tower 20 miles away in LaGrange to another 25 miles northwest in Mishawaka3.
After the program ended, many towers were deaccessioned around the year 2000. Today, Goshen’s is still used by AT&T for cell service and AQ2AT, LLC to transmit microwave signals4.
Sources Cited
1 Parcel 20-12-16-100-006.000-007 (2023). Office of the Assessor. Elkhart County [Goshen]. Web. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
2 Transmitter Characteristics (n.d.). Antennasearch. Web. Retrieved December 24, 2023.
3 Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
4 (See footnote 2).
