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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HMY_the-battle-of-chatham-harbor_Chatham-MA.html
Chatham's only active hostilities during the Revolutionary War occurred in Chatham Harbor, near this site, on 20 June 1782. At sunrise, crew members from a British privateer were discovered in Chatham's East Harbor, attempting to sail away th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HMX_chatham-radio-wcc_Chatham-MA.html
This is the site of Chatham Radio/WCC. Maritime wireless communications flourished here, one of the 20th century's premier wireless telegraphy stations. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America built the Chatham receiver station in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HIU_the-mayflower-story_Chatham-MA.html
A group of Separatist from the Church of England, later named Pilgrims, left England for Holland in 1608 in settled in Leiden in 1609. After staying there for 11 years, the group sailed back to England on the ship Speedwell, where they joined by m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CIF_samuel-de-champlain_Chatham-MA.html
The First White Man on these Shores Landed Here October 1606
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B21_in-memory-of-the-pioneers-of-chatham_Chatham-MA.html
He came from Norwich England in 1637. He acquired from the Indians by a series of purchases prior to the year 1683 the greater part of the present Township then known as Monomoyick. He and his sons and sons-in-laws Robert Nickerson · Sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1733_the-rescue-of-the-pendleton_Chatham-MA.html
One of the most spectacular small boat rescues on the east coast of the United States occurred on February 18, 1952. The tanker Pendleton broke in half off the coast of Chatham during a fierce Nor' caster storm. In blinding rain and sixty foot sea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1730_history-of-chatham-lighthouse_Chatham-MA.html
The waters off Chatham are notoriously dangerous because of the treacherous shoals and currents. The need for lights to warn mariners was recognized in early days of the country, and in 1806, nine years after the erection of the first lighthouse o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM172Z_the-mayflower-story_Chatham-MA.html
First, the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey. The Virginia Company gave them permission to establish a settlement, or "plantation," on the East Coast between 38 and …
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