Telling the tale of the telegraph at Brewster Ladies' Library
The French Cable Station Museum, Orleans Picture credit: www.fr enchcablestationmuseum.org A French flag hangs outside this old 19th century building in the town of Orleans, just a few miles east of Budleigh Salterton's sister-town of Brewster on Cape Cod. It's not just because the Cape Cod town of Orleans was named after the ancient French city. The flag reminds visitors that this building, completed in 1891 was the American termination point for a telegraph cable that came directly to the United States from France. It was installed in 1898 and was almost 3,200 miles long. Click on http://www.frenchcablestationmuseum.org/ and you can read the full story of the French telegraph and the Orleans cable station, which has been preserved as one of just three such marine telegraph stations remaining around the world. The others are in Newfoundland, and Porthcurno in Cornwall http://www.porthcurno-telegraph-museum.org.uk/ On 18 May 2010 museum volunteer and retired electrical engine...