Learn about the Stone Estate at Great Hill, a rambling stone baronial hall built by Mr. Galen L. Stone (a Boston investment banker) and seated on 312 acres of rolling woods, meadows and lawns off Delano Road. Great Hill itself is a peninsula that juts out into Buzzards Bay. Its prominent feature is a distinctive glacial hill that reaches 127 feet above sea level and gives the estate its name. Great Hill constitutes the highest land in Marion and has approximately two-and-one-half miles of waterfront. Long before the first permanent English settlement in Marion in 1679, Native Americans relied on its elevation as a strategic lookout to protect their families and crops, and utilized it as their sacred tribal meeting ground.
Few today realize that Marion was once home to the world's largest and most powerful wireless telegraph station. Built in 1914 by the pioneering Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, the Marion installation boasted fourteen towers, each standing more than 400 feet tall. The station was designed to handle all trans-Atlantic radio traffic, communicating directly with another high-powered wireless plant in Norway. So impressive was the station at the time of its installation, it was referred to as "one of the wonders of the twentieth century.”
This exhibit chronicles a period during the late 19th and early 20th century when, as Judith Rosbe’s book Marion in the Golden Age explains, “Marion became a treasured sanctuary from city life. Teeming with prosperity and the blossoming arts, this hamlet offered a setting so breathtaking that it inspired some of the world’s foremost creative minds . . . prominent artists, architects, writers and celebrities flocked to Marion.” Mark Twain, Henry James, President Grover Cleveland and Ethel Barrymore were but a few of the famous faces that graced Marion’s shores.
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Few today realize that Marion was once home to the world's largest and most powerful wireless telegraph station. Built in 1914 by the pioneering Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, the Marion installation boasted fourteen towers, each standing more than 400 feet tall. The station was designed to handle all trans-Atlantic radio traffic, communicating directly with another high-powered wireless plant in Norway. So impressive was the station at the time of its installation, it was referred to as "one of the wonders of the twentieth century.”
This exhibit chronicles a period during the late 19th and early 20th century when, as Judith Rosbe’s book Marion in the Golden Age explains, “Marion became a treasured sanctuary from city life. Teeming with prosperity and the blossoming arts, this hamlet offered a setting so breathtaking that it inspired some of the world’s foremost creative minds . . . prominent artists, architects, writers and celebrities flocked to Marion.” Mark Twain, Henry James, President Grover Cleveland and Ethel Barrymore were but a few of the famous faces that graced Marion’s shores.
Subi estos Manuales del Curso de Inglés Sin Barreras
Cualquier cooperación que desee hacer, se los agradeceré.
Banco Estado 23962390676
mi mail es el s_alicia2008@hotmail.com
