Harris II - Meter Satellite Earth Station Antenna

This 36-foot satellite dish spent 1981 to 2005 in LaGrange beaming the Wall Street Journal to Southeastern printers for Dow Jones. Now at the Tellus museum, it can double as a radio telescope.

Harris II - Meter Satellite Earth Station Antenna is a historical marker in Cartersville, Bartow County. It is one of 139 historical markers documented in Bartow County, among 265 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.2412, -84.7706 near Cartersville. The nearest cataloged historic site is ca. 1960 Euclid Dump Truck (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include ca. 1930 Whitcomb 15-ton Model 15DM4 Locomotive, ca. 1925 P&H Dragline Model 206, and Tellus Science Museum.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.