AT&T’s Long Line tower at Etna Green was built in 1956 or 19571. It rises to a height of 333 feet above the rural Indiana countryside2.
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Etna Green’s old Long Line tower
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Goshen’s old Long Line tower
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The concrete Long Line tower east of Goshen is another of ATT’s structures that dates to 1950. Built as part of the company’s first transcontinental microwave route from New York to Chicago, it’s 26 feet square1 and rises 133 feet above the hillside2.
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LaGrange County’s Oak Grove schoolhouse sits in the shadow of a Long Line tower
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My mom and I had eyes on the old Long Line tower near LaGrange when we noticed an old schoolhouse in unusually-tidy repair. I tend to be single-minded on research trips, but Mom insisted I take a photo. I did, and here’s all I’ve been able to uncover about Bloomfield Township’s Oak Grove Schoolhouse in LaGrange County.
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LaGrange’s old Long Line tower
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AT&T built tons of microwave relay towers throughout the United States during the 1950s and 60s as part of its Long Lines network, a transcontinental telecommunications system. Today, one stands tall amidst the trees near LaGrange, Indiana.
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Pleasant Lake’s ex-Long Line tower
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For many years, one of AT&T’s Long Line microwave relay towers stood in Pleasant Lake, Indiana. The tower was built around 19601. Despite its proximity to the tower in Angola, the two didn’t interface. Pleasant Lake’s relayed a signal from 28.5 miles away in West Unity, Ohio, to another tower 28 miles away near Albion2.
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Angola’s old Long Line tower
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AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Line communications network. Although they haven’t been used as part of it in nearly forty years, many towers remain standing. Here’s one near Angola, Indiana.
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Warren’s old Long Line tower
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AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers in the 1950s and 60s as part of its transatlantic telecommunications system called the Long Lines network. It’s been forty years since they were used for in that capacity, but many still stand. Here’s one near Warren, Indiana.
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Marion’s ex-Long Line tower
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AT&T went crazy building an assortment of microwave relay towers as part of its Long Lines network in the 1950s and 60s. Many of them still stand, but some don’t. The completionist in me couldn’t resist taking a photo of the site of a demolished tower just north of Marion, Indiana.
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Point Isabel’s old Long Line tower
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AT&T built thousands of microwave relay towers in the 1950s and 60s as part of its long-distance telecommunications system called the Long Lines network. It’s been decades since they were used for in that capacity, but many still stand. Here’s one near Point Isabel, Indiana.
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Lynn’s old Long Line tower
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AT&T built myriad microwave relay towers across the US in the 1950s and 60s. The company called its transcontinental telecommunications system the Long Lines network, and it led to early long-distance phone service. Although decades have passed since the towers were last used for their intended purpose, many of them continue to dominate the countryside. The monoliths captured my attention from a young age, and one towers over Lynn, in rural Randolph County.
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