Front:
TELEGRAPH HIL
ONE TIME SEMAPHORE STATON
ON EARUEST TELEGRAPH SYSTER
EAST CHOP LIGHTHOUSE ERECTED
AS PRIVATE ENTERPRISE BY
CAPTAIN SILAS DAGGETT 1869
COAST
GUARD
CAST CHOP
LIGHT
Back:
EAST CHOP LIGHTHOUSE
VINEYARD HAVEN, MASS.
Telegraph Hill, so designated because it
was from this site that a magnetic
telegraph, of the type invented by F.B.
Morse, was used on a somewhat irregular
basis between the Vineyard and Nantuc-
ket during the period between 1857 to
1861.
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Published by Bromley & Company, Inc., Boston, Mass. 02210
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MA1955-Color Photo: Hugo Poisson
Mike Roberts Color Productions
Oakland, CA 94623
