The very first United States telephone directory was published on February 21, 1878 in New Haven, Connecticut. However it didn't include any phone numbers! The District Telephone Company of New Haven, in addition to creating the first phone book ever, went on to create the first phone booth, the first payphone that used coins, and the first school for telephone operators (back then the people who manned the switchboards).
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