Historical Markers

Cochran County, Texas

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State: Gina Heffernan

FIRST TELEPHONE OFFICE IN COCHRAN COUNTY

Marker Number: 1876
Title: First Telephone Office in Cochran County
Location: 206 SW 1st Street, Morton, Texas
Year: 1999
Text: Erected 1925 at western terminus of South Plains & Santa Fe Railway in Bledsoe (25 miles southwest), for Texas Telephone Company; moved to Morton in 1926. Outgrown for phone company use in 1949, building became county museum in 1968.

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