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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/HM1H8L_marconi-wireless-station_Wellfleet-MA.html
Here stood one of the world greatest pioneer radio stations, Marconi South Wellfleet wireless, or "Old CC." Unfortunately, the historic station was dismantled and abandoned in 1920, and the ocean has eroded away over half the land occupi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H8J_transatlantic-triumph_Wellfleet-MA.html
Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted wireless telegraph signals as early is 1890 - between tin plates mounted on post in his father garden in Italy. He was only sixteen years old.
Inspired by short range successes, Marconi gradually increa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GXU_french-atlantic-cable-company_Orleans-MA.html
French - Atlantic cable company Cape Cod station 1890 - 1959. Oldest cable on Atlantic bed. From storm isolated Cape, first world news of steamer Portland lost off Truro with 200 lives; flashed from Orleans to Brest, France and back over their oth…
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/HM1735_kettles_Eastham-MA.html
A bird's eye view of Cape Cod reveals a landscape dimpled with holes. Most of them are nearly round, and many are filled wit water, like Salt Pond in front of you.Geologists call these intriguing depressions "kettles."They were formed over 18,000 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1734_workboat-of-the-marshes_Eastham-MA.html
A remnant from Cape Cod's agriculture past, this 1850-era hay barge was a common sight among the working dories, skiffs, and catboats of the area. Wide and flat-bottomed, it was rowed, poled, and sailed throughout the shallow marshes. Salt marsh h…
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…