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Theodore N. Vail -- Pioneer in Creating the Telephone Industry

Theodore N. Vail -- Pioneer in Creating the Telephone Industry is a Vermont historical marker in Lyndon, Caledonia County.

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Pioneer in Creating the telephone industry bought a farmhouse on this site in 1883. Continually enlarged by Vail, it became his permanent residence and office. Conferences held here culminated in the creation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company with Vail its president, who proceeded to develop the worlds first mass communication system.

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1874 · Railroad and post office map of Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · New Hampshire and Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1876 · Outline plan of Caledonia Co., Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1876 · Map Of Vermont. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1885 · Vermont (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Outline plan of Caledonia Co., Vermont, 1876, covering the location of Theodore N. Vail -- Pioneer in Creating the Telephone Industry, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Outline plan of Caledonia Co., Vermont, 1876, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Theodore N. Vail -- Pioneer in Creating the Telephone Industry

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