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... The telegraph was manned by a private telegrapher employed by Mr. Belden. See City Island, The Chronicle [Mount Vernon, NY], May 31, 1878, Vol. IX, No. 454, p. 2, col. 5 (reporting that "Mr. Wm. Belden is having the A. & P. Telegraph wire extended ...
... New Rochelle, on the east by New Rochelle and Long Island Sound, on the south by City Island and on the west by Mount Vernon." The district was served by a central office at New Rochelle so that when Pelham Manor residents cranked their phones and ...