Marconi Station Marker

The Marconi Wireless Station Site sits on the dunes above the Atlantic in South Wellfleet, within the Cape Cod National Seashore, where Guglielmo Marconi built the transatlantic wireless station from which the first complete wireless message from the United States to Europe was transmitted on January 18, 1903. Only ruins remain: concrete floors and footings of the transmitter house, a connecting corridor, fragments of the brick powerhouse, and the rubble-and-cement bases of the antenna towers, much of it eroding toward the sea. The original circular ring of twenty 200-foot masts was destroyed by a storm in 1901 and replaced in 1902 by four 210-foot latticed wooden towers; the station, powered by kerosene engines and a spark-gap transmitter producing about 30,000 watts, served ships at sea until it was shut down and dismantled between 1917 and 1922. Cited for its significance in communications, engineering, and military history, it is described in the nomination as the only nationally significant historic site within the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Marconi Station Marker is a historical marker in Wellfleet, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 41.9140, -69.9714 near Wellfleet. The nearest cataloged historic site is Marconi, Guglielmo Monument (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Pond Hill School, Pierce, Sylvanus Oysterhouse, and South Wellfleet Forest Fire Warden's Firehouse.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.