California Landmark 247: World’s First Long-Distance Telephone Line in French Corral, California

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California Historical Landmarks in Nevada County

California Landmark 247
World's First Long-Distance Telephone Line
Pleasant Valley Road
French Corral
Year 1877

14 December 2005
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Commemorating
The First Long-Distance Telephone in the World.

Built in 1877, by the Ridge Telephone Co., it connected French Corral with French Lake 58 miles away. It was operated by the Milton Mining Co from this building which was built about 1853.

Marker placed and dedicated by Columbia Parlor No. 70
Native Daughters of the Golden West
May 19, 1940

French Corral, population fewer than one hundred souls, is situated on quiet, Pleasant Valley Road about four and a half miles west of Route 49 and three miles east of the Bridgeport Covered Bridge. French Corral was founded as a mining town in 1849 after placer gold was discovered nearby. It was named for a stock pen belonging to a French settler.

The Milton Mining Company building, cited on the plaque, was razed long ago, but just west of town is a typical Wells Fargo building dating from 1853 the year the mining company building was built.

Cattle still graze alongside Pleasant Valley Road .

14 December 2005
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