Lingering Radio Transmissions Traditional Geocache
Lingering Radio Transmissions
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This will be a quick cache, but take some time to enjoy the view and explore the beach. If you can take the time, it’s a perfect place for a picnic. Limited parking near GZ, but it's quite busy with muggles in the high season. BYOP.
This land became available to the Town of Chatham in 1999. We are thankful to MCI for offering the land and all the people in town who pulled together to make it happen. The cache is located on the Forest Beach Overlook which provides views of the marsh, Nantucket Sound and Stage Harbor Light at the end of Hardings Beach.
This is the site of the former South Chatham Radio Transmitting Station WCC. It was built by RCA in 1946. This station served as an auxiliary to the Chatham WCC Receiving Station built by Guglielmo Marconi in 1914. During peak years of operation it relayed over one thousand messages a day to reach ships around the world. The transmitting station antennae field covered many acres of marsh. As a condition of the sale, MCI WorldComm had to remove the 300 foot tower and more than 90 poles from the marsh, as well as the residence and operation building located on the upland portion of the property. The poles you see in the marsh were left so that they could be used for nesting sites for the Osprey that inhabit the marsh. For more information the history of wireless transmissions and the museum in North Chatham, visit Chatham Marconi Maritime Center.
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