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

Site of Tassie Belle and Star and Cresent Iron Ore Furnaces

New Birmingham was a boom town nearby in the late 1880s built around local iron ore operations. The furnaces, capable of producing 50 tons of iron daily, were named "Tassie Belle," after the wife of the town founder A. B. ...

George Campbell Childress

(January 8, 1804 - October 6, 1841)

Born into a prominent Nashville, Tennessee, family, George Campbell Childress attended Davidson Academy (later the University of Nashville). He was admitted to the bar in 1828, the same year he married Margaret Vance. ...