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Telephone Companies in Early Homestead

Posted on January 5, 2020 by JeffFebruary 11, 2020

Share List 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 … Continue reading →

Forgotten Workers of Early Homestead I

Posted on June 4, 2017 by JeffJanuary 21, 2020

Share List 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 … Continue reading →