A long distance telephone line ran from Houston to Gilbert's Drug Store in Conroe before Mr. Gilbert and Albert Madeley began a local telephone exchange in the store in 1899. Soon after, George Madeley purchased the exchange, naming it Conroe Communication Company. He operated the company from the Madeley Building on this site. In 1929 George Madeley sold the company to the owners of the Lufkin Telephone Exchange. At that time the Conroe exchange consisted of a six-position switchboard with two toll operators, one rural operator and three local operators. By the late 1940s the office was too small for the outdated equipment it housed. In 1954 a dial system was installed in a new exchange building. The system was reorganized into the Lufkin-Conroe Telephone Exchange, Inc., in 1985. (2000)
Conroe Telephone Exchange
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Conroe Telephone Exchange is a historical marker in Conroe, Montgomery County, dedicated in 2000. It is one of 67 historical markers documented in Montgomery County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 165 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 30.3112, -95.4568 near Conroe. The nearest cataloged historic site is Conroe Fire of 1911 (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Montgomery County Courthouses, Conroe, and Conroe, Isaac.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5339012320. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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