Cabot Tower (St. John's)

The Cabot Tower is a Tower on Signal Hill above the port entrance of St. John's in Newfoundland. The tower was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of Newfoundland by John Cabot in red sandstone and is today the center of Signal Hill National Historic Park.

Originally, the tower was used as a flag marshal post for the city's harbor, so a tradition was continued, which was introduced in 1704 by the British Navy on the Signal Hill. 1901 Guglielmo Marconi received near the tower, the first transatlantic wireless signal transmitted from Cornwall, England: the letter " S" in Morse code. Until the 1960s, the first floor of the tower, a radio station was housed. Today the tower houses a business with articles on the history of the tower, an exhibition of Marconi and the transmitting station of the Society of Newfoundland Radio Amateurs.