A roughly 14-foot-tall telephone commemorates Bryant Pond’s place in telecommunications history as the home of the last hand-cranked telephone exchange in the United States. The giant phone stands as a roadside monument to the town’s unusually late survival of operator-connected service.
Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
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Source: maine.gov/sos/maineatlas/explore-the-atlas/worlds-largest-telephone