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 Monroe County’s Griffy Creek.

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 Jackson County community of Clear Springs.

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.

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 used to stand near Salem in Washington County.

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 Harrison County community of Lanesville.

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 Floyd County community of Edwardsville.

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 remain standing across Indiana. One of them is near the Floyd County community of Floyd’s Knobs.

During the 1950s and 60s, AT&T built microwave relay towers all across the United States. They were part of the Long Lines network, an early transcontinental telecommunications system. Today, the towers’ imposing presence persists: part of an old central office, one of them stands among the tallest buildings in downtown South Bend. 

AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network in the 50s and 60s. Although they haven’t been used in nearly fifty years, many remain standing across Indiana. Until about a decade ago, one loomed over AT&T’s central office on East Berry Street in Fort Wayne. 

When I was growing up, my family made countless trips from Muncie to Fort Wayne. To a kid stuck in the back seat, those seventy minutes felt endless! At least they did until we got to Warren and Zanesville, where a pair of tall steel towers loomed into view that bristled with strange fixtures that looked nothing like the typical radio or TV antennas. Years later, I found myself working in the shadow of one in Anderson. That daily view reignited a curiosity that had been quietly simmering for years!