Photo by Jess Mancini Brian Kesterson, a local Civil War history expert, holds the letter Clarkson Fogg wrote from Camp Lightburn in 1861 in which he talks about “a submarine telegraph line” installed ...
Boise still had no connection to a telegraph line in November 1874, when the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman reported: “The Northern Telegraph Company have extended their line from Silver City to Fairview, ...
Telegraph Road is one of the busiest highways in metropolitan Detroit. However, little has been written about its history because its origins were obscure. Telegraph Road was originally constructed as ...
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(U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 489 ff.) An Act to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. . . . Be it enacted, That [names of ...
The first transcontinental telegraph line went into operation 149 years ago on October 24, 1861, when the gap between the country's eastern and western networks was closed. The year before, Congress ...
On this date in history: In 1844, the first U.S telegraph line was formally opened -- between Baltimore and Washington. The first message sent was "What hath God wrought?" In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge ...
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The damn thing made a buzzing noise, and it was driving him mad. The resident of Keokuk's High Street had complained about the wire to anybody who would listen, but still it was there with its ...
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