The first telephones in Rock Hill were purchased from Sumter Telephone Manufacturing in Sumter, South Carolina. Two instruments were brought back to Rock Hill by John…

To place a call, you would speak to an operator and ask to be connected to the person you wanted to talk to. The operator would…

This 1927 Mack truck was acquired in 1930 from American Telephone & Telegraph in Atlanta. The original headlights were powered by gas and the vehicle’s top…

Keeping a telephone system up and running takes a lot of know-how. In the early days, repair crews would use equipment like this to find the…

The invention of the electromechanical switch forever changed the way people made telephone calls. For the first time, one person could complete a call to another…

Before there were bucket trucks, workers needed a way to reach the telephone lines to make repairs. This special platform was suspended in the air and…

Cell phones haven’t always been a part of everyday life. If you needed to make a call while you were away from home, you could use…