New Dialing Exchange at Southern Bell

New Dialing Exchange at Southern Bell

Southern Bell Dialing Exchange

Sanford (Fla.)

Telephone--United States

Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company

The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company's new dialing exchange in Sanford, Florida, in the late 1950s. Southern Bell was originally part of the Bell Telephone Company, founded on July 9, 1877, in Boston, Massachusetts. Southern Bell, formerly called the Atlanta Telephonic Exchange, became a separate entity on December 20, 1879 in Atlanta, Georgia. The company was established to serve Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, parts of West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In 1917, operations for West Virginia were taken over by the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia. On December 20, 1967, Southern Bell formed South Central Bell Telephone to operate in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Although originally incorporated in New York, Southern Bell was reincorporated in Georgia as SBT&T Company in 1983. As of 2013, the company was absorbed into BellSouth Telecommunications and is headquartered in Atlanta.

New Dialing Exchange at Southern Bell.

Original black and white photograph: Greater Sanford Regional Chamber of Commerce, Sanford, Florida.

Celery City Printing Company

ca. 1957-1958

ca. 1976

Bishop, Katherine

Digital reproduction of original book: Sanford Now and Then: An Official Project of the Greater Sanford Chamber of Commerce, Commemorating the Incorporating of the City of Sanford, 1877. Tag number DP0009054. Central Florida Memory.

Digital reproduction of original black and white photograph, 1891.

Sanford Now and Then: An Official Project of the Greater Sanford Chamber of Commerce, Commemorating the Incorporating of the City of Sanford, 1877. Tag number DP0009054. Central Florida Memory.

Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Sanford Now and Then: An Official Project of the Greater Sanford Chamber of Commerce, Commemorating the Incorporating of the City of Sanford, 1877, page 67.

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Copyright to this resource is held by the Greater Sanford Regional Chamber of Commerce and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Cepero, Laura

Sanford Now and Then: An Official Project of the Greater Sanford Chamber of Commerce, Commemorating the Incorporating of the City of Sanford, 1877. Central Florida Memory. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CFM/id/120212.

"130 Years of the Telephone - A Brief History of the Telephone and Information Transmission." AT&T. http://wholesale.att.com/info_and_events/phonehistory.html.

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