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1889-05-01

Land telegraph line linking Saint Marc begins operating

Haitian

The road from St.Marc to Verrettes is 40 kilometers, with a branch to Dessalines and the Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite, 30 kilometers; it deserves to be kept in good condition to ease transport and traffic. From St. Marc to Grande Saline, 26.68. A land telegraph line connects St.Marc with the telegraph station of the submarine cable at Môle St.Nicolas, and with Port au Prince, Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Aquin, the Cayes, Jérémie and the Dominican frontier. It began operating on 1 May 1889.

Rouzier tells this under the entry ST.-MARC.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 67 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 67