Join Desert Museum botany staff and docents on Mt. Lemmon for a day filled with butterflies and flowers! Next Saturday (August 20), we will focus on the identification of the butterflies that we spot and their relationships with flowering plants and trees.
In 1832 Jed Jackson had the contract for carrying mail from Brantford to London twice a week along the Old Stage Road. On October 6, 1835, a post office was established at Woodstock, Ontario, with Princeton following within two years. According to the Legislative Council Sessional Papers for 1846, a post office was established at Princeton on May 6, 1836 and Jeremiah Cowin was appointed postmaster on May 9, 1837. The sureties were George Beamer and Silas Martin to the amount of Â£200. The assistant was John Charles.
1 28 January 1878: The first commercial North American telephone exchange is opened in New Haven, Connecticut. 2  4 February 1878: Edison demonstrates the telephone between Menlo Park, New Jersey and Philadelphia, a distance of 210 kilometres (130 mi). 14 June 1878: The Telephone Company (Bell's Patents) Ltd. is registered in London. 2  Opened in London on 21 August 1879, it is Europe's first telephone exchange, followed a couple of weeks later by one in Manchester. 3  12 September 1878: the Bell Telephone Company sues Western Union for infringing Bell's patents.