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Historic Sites Attractions In Waterville

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Waterville is the name of several places. In Russia Waterville Aquapark, a water park attached to the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya Hotel, Saint PetersburgIn the United States: Waterville, Iowa Waterville, Kansas Waterville, Maine Waterville, Minnesota Waterville, New York Waterville, Ohio Waterville, Pennsylvania Waterville, Tennessee Waterville, Vermont Waterville, Washington Waterville, Wisconsin Waterville , a neighborhood in Connecticut Waterville USA, a water and amusement park in AlabamaIn Canada: Waterville, Quebec Waterville, Nova Scotia Waterville, New Brunswick Waterville, Newfoundland and LabradorIn Ireland: Waterville, County Kerry Waterville, D...
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  • 1. The Atlantic Telegraph Waterville Waterville
    The Commercial Cable Company was founded in New York in 1884 by John William Mackay and James Gordon Bennett, Jr. Their motivation was to break the then virtual monopoly of Jay Gould on transatlantic telegraphy and bring down prices . The technology was well established by this time, and they were able to lay cables from Waterville in Ireland to Canso, Nova Scotia, without the major technical problems of the first Transatlantic telegraph cable. Onward connections to New York City and beyond were initially overland and later submarine. Connections from Waterville to Weston-super-Mare in England and Le Havre in France were soon established by the submarine route after initial use of landlines from Waterville onward to mainland Britain. Commercial Cable also had a relationship with the German...
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  • 2. Eightercua Waterville
    Eightercua Irish: Íoċtar Ċua , meaning the place or holy place or harbor that is Íoċ or below - the word is a specifically geographical term that does not adequately translate into English which does not designate a place down below with categorically geographical differentiation) is a four-stone alignment Megalithic tomb, located 1.5 km south-south-east of Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland. The tallest stone reaches 9 feet in height, and the alignment streaches for twenty five feet in an east-west direction. Surrounding artifacts, including remains of a possible tomb and an ancient enclosure, suggest that the site had a ritual purpose at one time. Eightercua is thought to originate from circa. 1700 BC, and by tradition is the burial place of Scéine, wife of the leader of the Milesia...
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