The Telegraph comes to Santa Fe
Series: Centennial Journeys
From: New Mexico Centennial
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The telegraph comes to Santa Fe in 1868 and changes everything.
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Transcript
“Remote beyond compare” was how don Diego de Vargas described late 17th century New Mexico in letters home to his family in Spain. Letters that took over a year to be delivered. We take instant communications for granted today, but not that long ago it wasn’t so easy. News traveled very slowly.
All that changed on July 8, 1868, when the telegraph connected Santa Fe with the rest of the continental U.S. and the world. News accounts of the day described in amazement how messages could now be sent and received within the same day over long distances. According to the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican one of the first messages sent from the city was to President Andrew Johnson: “We, the citizens of Santa Fe, greet you as president of this Republic on the consummation of this work, a sure evidence of our determination to keep pace with the spirit and progress of the times.”
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