Groundbreaking ceremony for Southern Bell telephone building, 1958

Similar photo taken by Earl Ricou and published in the Stuart News (3 Apr 1958) with caption: "Breaking Ground. While local citizens and company employees look on. Southern Bell Manager Carl Fremaux of Ft. Pierce and Mayor Kenneth S. Stimmell of Stuart lift the first shovelful of earth symbolizing start of construction on a $280,000 dial phone building here. Center: Mrs. Gene Kreider, manager of the Stuart exchange. Others left to right are: D. S. Hudson, president of the Citizens Bank, City Commissioner John N. Mann and Alex Delich, Chamber director Robert Gottron, Grover King, Chamber president, County Commissioner E. J. Arnold, Chamber director Mark Smith, W. D. Johnson, supervising engineer, E. E. Freeman, plant manager and H. R. Higgs, construction supervisor, Ft. Pierce, and E. J. Keyes, plant foreman, Stuart."

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow.

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