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The state's first telephone exchange was placed in service in Wheeling with about 25 subscribers
Wheeling lies 57 miles below Pittsburgh on the Ohio River. The manufacturing and commercial center of the Northern Panhandle and the county seat of Ohio County, Wheeling stretches along a narrow valley on the east bank of the Ohio, around and over...
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