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Telephone Companies in Early Homestead

Historic South Dade Posted on January 5, 2020 by JeffSeptember 8, 2022

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 →

Posted in Business, Homestead, Pioneers | Tagged Dade County Telephone Company, Homestead Telephone Co., J.U. Free, People's Telephone Line, Walter Frazeur | 8 Replies

Forgotten Workers of Early Homestead I

Historic South Dade Posted on June 4, 2017 by JeffOctober 7, 2020

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 →

Posted in Agriculture, Florida East Coast Railway, Homestead, Modello, Naranja, Pioneers | Tagged A.T. Duval, Ezekiel Pherigo, Homestead, Homestead Hotel, J.U. Free, Naranja, Tom Evans | 3 Replies

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