Cabot Tower
The Cabot Tower is a tower on Signal Hill above the harbor entrance of St. John's in Newfoundland . Constructed from red sandstone in 1897 to mark the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Newfoundland by John Cabot, the tower is now the center of Signal Hill National Historic Park .
Originally, the tower was used as a flag post for the city's harbor, continuing a tradition established by the British Navy on Signal Hill in 1704. In 1901 Guglielmo Marconi received the first wireless transatlantic signal from Cornwall , England, not far from the tower : the letter "S" in Morse code . A radio station was housed on the first floor of the tower until the 1960s. Today the tower houses a shop selling articles related to the tower's history, an exhibition on Marconi and the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs broadcasting station .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 8.2 " N , 52 ° 40 ′ 49.1" W.