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Sidelined here by a leg injury in January 1915, AT&T president Theodore Vail had a line extended to the Jekyll Island Club so he could join the nation's first coast-to-coast call, linking him with Alexander Graham Bell and President Wilson.
First Transcontinental Call is a historical marker in Jekyll Island, Glynn County, erected in 1965. It is one of 121 historical markers documented in Glynn County, among 181 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.0579, -81.4224 near Jekyll Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Rockefeller Cottage (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Jekyll Island Club Wharf, Arriving on This Island, and M.E. Thompson and the Purchase of Jekyll Island.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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