[2] At this location, now part of the Cape Cod National Seashore (though no admission is charged if not visiting Marconi Beach), inventor Guglielmo Marconi erected a large antenna array on four 210-foot (64 m) wooden towers, and established a transmitting station powered by kerosene engines that produced the 25,000 volts of electricity needed to send signals to a similar station in Poldhu, Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Operators at the station were able to alert the RMS Carpathia so that the rescue of some of the Titanic's passengers could be effected.

[2] The station was shut down in 1917 in part over concerns about its use in World War I, but also because its towers were threatened with erosion.

Erosion has taken its toll over the years since then,[3] and there was little left as of the date of the National Park Service brochure.

[citation needed] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.