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 ...
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, ...
Edward D. Baker, U.S. senator from Oregon, was killed 150 years ago Friday, on Oct. 21, 1861, in the nascent Civil War's Battle of Ball's Bluff. It took until Nov. 3 for the news to reach Oregon, and ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The line projected by Mr. COLLINS, from the Pacific Telegraph to Amoor river, with its anticipated extension by the Russian Government to Irkoutsk, would be the one link now wanted to supply direct ...
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