Mink, Louisiana
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  Mink  Mink | |
| Coordinates: Coordinates: 31°23′42″N 93°04′15″W / 31.39500°N 93.07083°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Louisiana |
| Parish | Natchitoches |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 318 |
Mink is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States, approximately 100 miles (160 km) south of Shreveport. It is in Kisatchie National Forest.
Mink was one of the last places in the United States to receive traditional landline telephone service. Service began in February 2005, when BellSouth spent $700,000, or about $47,000 per phone, to run a cable of 30 miles (48 km) through thick forests to the hamlet.[1] The thrust to bring the telephone service to Mink began when a resident of the community, Alice Louise Johnson Bolton (1921-2014), a retired teacher's assistant, spoke out at a town hall meeting in Natchitoches in 2003 called by Foster Campbell, one of the five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission.[2] When service finally came to Mink, Bolton's first caller was then-governor Kathleen Blanco.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Small LA town gets phone service for first time on Mon Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, WISTV.com website, February 1, 2005.
- ^ "Alice Louise Johnson Bolton". Alexandria Daily Town Talk. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
- ^ "Andrew Buncombe, Mink, Louisiana, hears new sound: a ringtone, February 5, 2005". The Independent in London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
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