Burlington’s ex-Long Line tower

For years, one of AT&T’s Long Line microwave relay towers stood near Burlington, Indiana. It connected signals from a tower thirteen miles southwest in Frankfort with another sixteen miles east in Kokomo and a third eighteen miles northeast in Anoka1

Photo taken November 26, 2023.

The tower looked similar to those in Warren and Frankfort2. After the Long Lines program ended, an AT&T successor sold the Burlington tower in 20013. The tower was demolished soon after4. Today, all that remains of AT&T’s Long Line presence is a service bunker. 

Sources Cited
1 Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved November 14, 2023.
2 Google. (1999, March). [Google Maps Burlington Long Line tower location]. Retrieved February 24, 2024, from Google Earth Pro.
3 Parcel 08-09-30-000-015.000-002 (2024). Office of the Assessor. Carroll County [Delphi]. Web. Retrieved February 24, 2024. 
4 Google. (2003, September). [Google Maps Burlington Long Line tower location]. Retrieved February 24, 2024, from Google Earth Pro.

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