Sixty and seventy years ago, AT&T built thousands of Long Line towers as part of its transcontinental microwave communications network. It’s been decades since they were used for their original purpose, but one still stands just outside of Crawfordsville in Montgomery County.
I’m not sure when Crawfordsville’s Long Line tower was built. Fencing around the property dates to 19901, but the tower almost certainly predated that. Nevertheless, it stands 317 feet tall2. When in use, it relayed a signal from twenty-eight miles northwest in Williamsport twenty-five miles southeast in Montclair3.
AT&T deaccessioned most of its towers around the year 2000 after the Long Lines program ended, . Today, the tower at Crawfordsville is used by Tarpon Towers and Indiana 5 Partners4.
Sources Cited
1 Parcel 11-11-100-007.000-025 (2024). Office of the Assessor. Montgomery County [Crawfordsville]. Web. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
2 Transmitter Characteristics (n.d.). Antennasearch. Web. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
3 Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved August 23, 2024.
4 (See footnote 2).
