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Community of LeRoy
Telephones
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

At a special city council meeting September 23, 1897 a permit was granted to Central Union Telephone Company to erect poles and stretch wires on streets and alleys in the city of LeRoy. This is the first mention of public telephone service in LeRoy. At the regular meeting of the council on February 14, 1898 the McLean County Telephone Company was granted permission to erect poles and stretch wires in LeRoy. Then permission was granted in May, 1899 to the Farm and City Telephone Company to set poles and string wire on the streets and alleys of LeRoy. In 1906 a contract was given to A.T. & T. to set poles and string wires in the city. [Heritage of the prairie : a history of LeRoy and of Empire and West townships, McLean County, Illinois (1976) LeRoy Historical Society; LeRoy Bi-Centennial Commission]

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