French Cable Station Museum
USA /
Massachusetts /
Orleans /
South Orleans Road, 27
World
/ USA
/ Massachusetts
/ Orleans
World / United States / Massachusetts
museum, telegraph
This used to be the American end of the first transatlantic telegraph link with France and Europe. After its closure in the 1950s, citizens of Orleans bought the house and its contents and turned it into a magnificent museum of telegraphy. The original telegraphic instruments from around 1880 to 1940 testify of an age of ingenuity and enterpreneurship. Some of the machines can still be operated by the volunteer guides!
see more at www.frenchcablestationmuseum.org
see more at www.frenchcablestationmuseum.org
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°47'16"N 69°59'14"W
- Captain Penniman House 3.8 km
- Chatham Marconi Maritime Center 9 km
- Cape Cod Museum Of Natural History 11 km
- Chatham Train Museum 12 km
- Atwood House Museum 13 km
- Cape Cod Museum of Art 18 km
- Edward Gorey House 23 km
- Whydah Pirate Museum 25 km
- Main street 29 km
- Provincetown Art Association and Museum 34 km
- Town of Orleans, Massachusetts 2.2 km
- Nickerson State Park 4.1 km
- Town of Eastham, Massachusetts 5.6 km
- Great island 15 km
- Town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts 16 km
- Griffin Island 18 km
- Town of Truro, Massachusetts 28 km
- Provincetown Harbor 32 km
- Wood End 32 km
- Town of Provincetown, Massachusetts 35 km