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WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)TELEPHONES IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH |
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HISTORYThe old telephone and telegraph office was located on the northwest corner of Main St. & Tabernacle in St. George.Prefixes were used before switching to all numerics: ORchard 3-xxxx -> 673-xxxx in St. George MEdford 5-xxxx -> 635-xxxx in Hurricane PRospect 2-xxxx -> 772-xxxx in Springdale When area codes were introduced, all of Utah was given area code 801. In September of 1997, area code 435 was introduced to southern Utah, including Washington County. Starting on March 22, 1998, only area code 435 was used in Washington County. PHOTOS
![]() WCHS-00360 Telephone switching office in downtown St. George Other WCHS photos: WCHS-00357 Photo of the Dixie "D" and telephone microwave reflector on the Black Hill WCHS-00690 Photo of the telephone microwave reflector on the Red Hill WCHS-01814 Photo of three St. George telephone operators at their switchboard WCHS-04156 Photo of the old telephone & telegraph office and Bishops' Store House in St. George REFERENCESTelephone CompaniesHarmony Telephone Company Mountain Bell Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company People's Progressive Telephone Company Southern Utah Telephone Company Telephone Books The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, May 1941 The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, Spring 1954 The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, Fall 1958 Mountain States Telephone, October 1961 Mountain Bell, September 1972 Helen B. Gardener and Quenton T. Bowler, " The People's Progressive Telephone Company, 1912-17: The Dream and the Reality". Utah Historical Quarterly (UHQ), Volume 61, Number 1 (Winter 1993) Pages 79-94 Southern Utah Memories: Telephone Operator Picketers Get a "Hosing" by Local Men Who Commandeer St. George City Fire Truck, by Loren R. Webb, January 6, 2013 The heartbeat of St. George unsung heroins of the switchboard Article by Elaine R. Alder St. George Magazine, Volume 11, Number 4, July/August 1993, pp. 66-69 |
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