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The History of Glenwood Telephone Company

THE AREA

THE ADAMS FAMILY

W. R. Stanford originally founded Glenwood Telephone Company in 1898. It was then passed on to his son, C. R. Stanford. The company

was then purchased in 1940 by W. H. Harvey and Odessa Jones. Three years later on January 2, 1943, they sold the company to

Leon B. Adams and Eloise Cox Adams.

The Adams' purchase included a struggling exchange with thirty-three subscribers with one-party residential rates of $1.50 per month and

one-party business rate of $2.50, which was comparable to what most of Georgia's rural telephone exchanges were authorized to collect.

They collected the whole sum of $56.00 in their first month of ownership. The house previously occupied by Mr. And Mrs. Jones was also

part of the purchase because the magneto switchboard was located there. The Adams moved into their new home, where Mrs. Adams

assumed the duty of keeping the switchboard open twenty-four hours a day with the help of several local ladies, including Mrs. Dot

McDaniel and Miss Jean Maddox, along with a Miss Anderson.

The front room of their home became the business office and the social center of town. While this popular operation was of great benefit to

the community, it failed to provide the necessary funds to operate the company and support the family, forcing Mr. Adams to take other

jobs. He did quite a few other jobs and maintained the facilities in his old Dodge truck with only occasional part-time help.

The Adams had two daughters, Janice Eloise and Beverly. Beverly was killed in a tragic automobile accident at the age of nineteen. Janice

, then, was destined to be the next owner/operator of this family telephone company.

In time, the company grew and prospered and in 1956, a new telephone business office was constructed and Stromberg-Carlson XY

120-line equipment installed to provide efficient service to its customers.

The outside plant was upgraded and the switch expanded in 1972. The old aerial wire was taken down and aerial cable replaced in some

parts of the exchange territory. ANI was added to the central office.

Upgrades to facilities of the outside plant have continued since that time. Today, our outside plant is virtually 100% buried cable.

The business office was moved back into the home that had been the site of the original telephone office in 1989. This was done to allow

room in the Central Office Building to replace the old XY switch with a new Stromberg-Carlson DCO switch. This change took place in1990.

The company also added 13 miles of fiber optic cable to its facilities as a part of this capital improvement project.

Eloise and LB Adams

The Old House / Office

The “Telephone Man”

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