Record #:

23679

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

In 1881, William E. Fountain, a leading businessman of Tarboro, NC, built a telegraph line from Tarboro to Greenville. In 1896, the first telephone company got rights to operate in Greenville. In 1899, W. B. Wilson owned the first desk phone in town and in 1901 the first pay phone was located in Bryan Nichols drug store. In 1915, the Home Telephone Company built the large two story triangular brick office building on the corner of Washington Street and Dickinson Avenue. This beautiful building was torn down in 1975. In 1939, the telephone exchange was converted to the local dial system with 2,031 telephones in service.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. 28 Issue 13, Jun 23-Jul 21 2010, p4

Subject(s):

Telephone service--Greenville