Bell System at Augusta, Georgia

[Bell System Logo]

The first telephone

exchange in the State of Georgia

was established at

Augusta, Georgia

August 1, 1879

With seventy eight subscribers,

this was only three years after

Alexander Graham Bell

invented the telephone.

This plaque

presented by

Discovery of Gold in Georgia

In 1828 gold was discovered here on Duke`s Creek, White County, by two people. John Witheroods of North Carolina found a 3-ounce nugget and a Negro servant of Major Frank Logan of Louisville, Georgia, also discovered gold on the creek. ...