All posts tagged "telegraph"
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8.6KConnecticutThe Wallingford Tornado of 1878 Unleashes Terror on an Unsuspecting Town
The Wallingford Tornado of 1878 ranks as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike Connecticut. It caused so much damage...
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7.1K4ConnecticutThe Rise and Fall of the Connecticut Borough
For over 200 years Connecticut has had a somewhat unique type of local government – a borough, of which nine currently survive....
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5.7KBusiness and LaborThe Telegraph Hills of Massachusetts
Along the east coast of Massachusetts stretching from Boston to Martha’s Vineyard lies a series of Telegraph Hills. So named around 1801,...
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5.9K1MassachusettsThe Portland Gale of 1898, and the Cat that Saved a Life
Of all the storms that struck New England over the centuries, only one was named after its victim: The Portland Gale of...
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8.9K2bostonThe Great Boston Fire of 1872
In 1871, a Boston fire department engineer name John Damrell traveled to Chicago to examine the smoking ruins of the Great Chicago...
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13.9K6Business and LaborThe Brunswick Children Strike the Cabot Mill
In the summer of 1881, eight-year-old children working in a Brunswick, Maine, textile mill found out eight-year-old children working in a Lewiston,...
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7.3K13Crime and ScandalThe Halifax Explosion – One Sketchy Plea for Help, and Massachusetts Goes the LImit
On the morning of December 6, 1917, a curious telegraph arrived at the offices of Hornblower & Weeks, a Boston investment banking...
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12.4K3MassachusettsMr. Marconi Builds a Radio Station on Cape Cod and Comes to the Rescue of the Titanic
On Jan. 18, 1903, Guglielmo Marconi sent a message from his Cape Cod station, the first radio transmission to cross the Atlantic...
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17.3K22Arts and LeisureMaine’s Great Clam Chowder War of 1939
A tomato-hating politician from Rockland set off the Maine clam chowder war of 1939 when he drafted a bill to criminalize clam...
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19.5K8Business and LaborEmma Nutt, The World’s 1st Woman Telephone Operator
When Emma Nutt reported for work at the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston on Sept. 1, 1878, she became the...
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