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1878-12-10 - Historic Twin Cities
On this date in 1878, Telegrapher Richard Henry Hankinson organizes the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. of Minneapolis with authorized capital stock of $10,000. The company would begin its operations with 53 subscribers in February 1879, and a line was strung to St. Paul in April of that year. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. was one of […]