Marconi Station Site

The bluff at South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, is where Guglielmo Marconi built the station that sent the first public transatlantic wireless message — communiqués between President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII, transmitted in January 1903. Almost nothing of it remains. The towers are gone, the equipment is gone, and the bluff itself is eroding into the Atlantic. What you come to see is an absence that still carries weight: the edge of the continent, the ocean beyond it, and the fact that from this particular cliff, the modern world began announcing itself.