Robert E. Bromwell, M.D.

    The first Port Deposit Telephone was installed after 1906. It was a line connecting Dr. Bromwell's house two miles outside of Port Deposit with Fraser's Drug Store.

This telephone was issued by the great inventor Wallace Turnbull (1870-1954), who was a contempory of Alexander Graham Bell.

The drug store telephone was destroyed after Alexander Graham Bell won 600 lawsuits challenging his right to the patent of his invention, but Dr. Bromwell's didn't care much for lawsuits and the phone was left untouched in his residence.