Georgia Rural Telephone Museum, History museum in Leslie, United States.
The Georgia Rural Telephone Museum is a telephone museum at 135 North Bailey Avenue in Leslie, Georgia, run as a not-for-profit organization. It occupies a renovated cotton warehouse built in the 1910s. As of 2007 it displayed 2,000 artifacts, with telephones dating back to the 1880s.
The museum was founded in 1995 by Tommy C. Smith and is a not-for-profit organization. It occupies a renovated cotton warehouse built in the 1910s at 135 North Bailey Avenue. By 2007 it displayed 2,000 artifacts dating back to the 1880s.
The museum shows how telephones changed life in rural areas and connected people who lived far from cities. Visitors learn how communication technology shaped the way small communities stayed in touch with each other.
The museum is located at 135 North Bailey Avenue in Leslie and is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 3:30 PM. Visitors should know the museum operates only on weekdays, so planning a visit during the week is necessary.
The museum's collection of telephones is described by the museum itself as unparalleled in size, and 2007's Georgia Curiosities called the GRTM "one of the world's largest phone museums." The exhibits as of 2007 numbered 2,000 artifacts, with the oldest dating to the 1880s.
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