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Canadian native Reginald Fessenden made the first wireless radio broadcast in North Carolina, featuring sounds of him playing his violin and reading passages from the Bible, on Dec. 24, 1902. The broadcast was relayed from Buxton, NC, and recieved 48 miles north on Roanoke Island.
Fessenden came to North Carolina in 1900 under the auspices of the United States Weather Bureau to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy on Roanoke Island.
The experiment station at Buxton no longer stands but the foundations for a tower used by Fessenden do remain.
A prolific inventor, Fessenden patented more than 500 ideas, mostly in the field of radio. He is recognized as the originator of the continuous wave principle in wireless transmission.
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