The Atlantic Telegraph Waterville

Not one location, but many historic sites!

Running the first telegraph cable from Ireland to America took a lot of effort, and created many milestones. As such there are many historic buildings here, but almost all are now residential properti...

Awesome concept

Imagine the vision to think of laying a cable across the Atlantic ocean to America in the mid 1800's. It started here. Wow is all I can say.

The Atlantic Telegraph Waterville

This is a really great place to start when you want to investigate the link with Waterville and the history of the Telegraph and the Commercial Cable Company. Excellent piece of history and knowledge.

Excellent history exhbit

Well worth an hour if you have any interest in the cable, and also the first radio station in Ireland. An interesting sidelight: this was the radio station three Irish soldiers wanted to reach to send...

Info on exhibit here

If you do a search in Trip Advisor for The Story of the Trans Atlantic Cable Station you'll get great info. Trip Advisor has the Cable Station written out three different ways and NOT all in the same ...