telephone

Fannin County TXGenWeb Telephone

HANDBOOK OF TEXAS ONLINE- TELEPHONE

Telephone is in northeast Fannin County at the

intersection of FM 273 and 2029. It's about 18

miles northeast of Bonham. While settlers had

moved into the vicinity as early as the 1870s, the

community was not established until around 1886. Telephone was named for the fact that the only

in the area was at the local general store owned

by Pete Hindman. According to local lore,postal authorities had refused all of Hindman's applications

for a post office in his store that would serve the community because the names he submitted for

it were already being used by other Texas post offices.

Pete submitted the name Telephone (perhaps as a

joke, since the postal authorities had already been

giving him grief about name selection). The name

was accepted, and the post office was opened in

1886. In 1890, the community's population was 30. Today, the population is about 200.