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Frederick County Proclaims March as Telephone Centennial Month
Frederick County officials honor the 100th birthday of the telephone in 1976 with a proclamation. The document notes Bell System and Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company leadership, the invention’s impact, and a brief history of Baltimore’s early telephone service from the 1870s through the 1890s, including the first operators and rising subscriber counts.
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Frederick County
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company
Maryland
Bell System
Boston
Mass
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Philadelphia
Neceloie
Lawrene A. Dorsey
Board of
County Commissioners
Baltimore
Maryland Telephone Company
Baltimore City
C&p
Exchange
South Streets
LNW
Harry G. Dunn
Mollie Cunningham
Augustus G. Davis
Davis
Madeen
8. Paul
Liberty
Beltimore
Ssice
Frederick