Soon to be the home of the very famous Lapp Insulator Company, this is what this little community's center looked like a bit more than a hundred years ago. The multi-crossarm pole connected telephone circuits inside a wooden terminal box (as seen on the pole). From there paired wires likely led to the village's central telephone office nearby. The shorter pole on the left appears to have carried electric lighting circuits. The two small objects on the crossarm either were enclosed fuse cutouts or lightning arresters.