AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network. Although they haven’t been used as part of it in nearly forty years, many towers remain standing across Indiana. One looms over a bowling alley in Lebanon.
The tower in Lebanon appears to have been built in 19701. Rising 187 feet2, it relayed a signal from another tower seventeen miles southwest in Montclair to another nineteen miles northwest in Frankfort3. Today, the tower retains a pair of impressive SHX10A antennae.
After the Long Lines program ended, a successor to AT&T sold most of the towers in 2000. Today, Lebanon’s is operated by Indiana Paging Network, Inc.
Sources Cited
1 Parcel 0150401000 (2024). Office of the Assessor. Boone County [Lebanon]. Web. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
2 Transmitter Characteristics (n.d.). Antennasearch. Web. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
3Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
4 (See footnote 2).