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Marconi station at South Wellfleet, MA

A larger low building surrounded by outbuildings and more than a dozen aerial towers and wires.

Photographer unknown. 1901. South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. “Marconi Station at South Wellfleet, MA.” James Vey Collection, Series, Item B 1-89. The Rooms, Provincial Archives Division.

This station, which Marconi had built in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, a small community neighbouring Cape Cod, was destroyed in a windstorm. It forced Marconi to find a new location for his transatlantic trial. In 1903, a new station was built in South Wellfleet. It sent the first transatlantic signal between the United States and Europe.