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Telephone Companies in Early Homestead

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By Jeff Blakley The telephones in use in the Homestead area in the early 1900s were crank magneto telephones. To place a call with this kind of phone (this was before the dial telephone came into use in this area), … Continue reading →

Forgotten Workers of Early Homestead I

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A Postcard Tells Its Story by Jeff Blakley Piecing together the small number of remaining fragments of early Homestead history is quite a challenge. I’m writing this post to show how, sometimes, we historians are fortunate to be able to … Continue reading →