North State Communications

N State traces its beginnings to the creation of the High Point Telephone Exchange in High Point, N. C. By local businessmen in 1895. In 1899, J. F. Hayden, an inventor and visionary who had earlier pioneered the 1st telephone system in neighboring Thomasville, N. C. Purchased the High Point firm and rapidly started expanding both systems. In 1905, Hayden incorporated the High Point based firm and changed the name to North State Telephone Company. In 1919, Hayden purchased the competing Southern Bell system in High Point that had been working in the city since 1907.