Historical Marker

First Telephone Office in Cochran County

Historical marker location:

206 Southwest 1st Street, Morton, Texas

( 206 Southwest 1st Street)

Erected 1925 at western terminus of South Plains & Santa Fe Railway in Bledsoe (25 miles southwest), for Texas Telephone Company; moved to Morton in 1926.

Outgrown for phone company use in 1949, building became county museum in 1968.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1969.