AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network in the 1950s and 60s. Although they haven’t been used in nearly forty years, many of the monoliths remain standing across Indiana. One of them is near the Jackson County community of Brownstown.

The Long Line Tower in Brownstown appears to have been built in 1978¹ and rises 230 feet tall². It sits near another Long Line Tower in Clear Springs, but I haven’t been able to figure out how it played into AT&T’s larger network or which sites it relayed signals to.

Still, AT&T deaccessioned most of its towers around the year 2000 after the Long Lines program ended. Today, Lodestar Tower Central Incorporated of Atlanta, Georgia, owns Brownstown’s old Long Line Tower³. 

Sources Cited
1 Parcel 36-63-35-100-005.002-010 (2025). Office of the Assessor. Jackson County [Brownstown]. Web. Retrieved November 1, 2025. 
2 Transmitter Characteristics (n.d.). Antennasearch. Web. Retrieved November 1, 2025. 
3 (See footnote 1).