From the 1940s through the sixties and seventies, 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 near the town of East Enterprise.
The tower in East Enterprise appears to have been built in 19601. It’s hard to say how tall the tower is, unfortunately, since it’s missing its iconic KS-15676 horn antennae and doesn’t appear to be in use for communications purposes anymore2. At one point, however, it relayed a signal from Manchester, twenty-three miles northwest, to Williamstown, Kentucky3.
After the Long Lines program ended, AT&T deaccessioned most of its towers around the year 2000. Today, the tower in East Enterprise is owned by Communication Properties, LLC4.
Sources Cited
1 Parcel 78-09-12-100-008.000-001 (2024). Office of the Assessor. Switzerland County [Vevay]. Web. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
2 Transmitter Characteristics (n.d.). Antennasearch. Web. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
3 Long Lines Map and Information (n.d.). Web. Map. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
4 (See footnote 1).
