Timeline of time capsules

The following is a timeline of time capsules that are either scheduled to be installed, to be opened or have already been opened.

Timeline of installations

Date Status Location Notes Cite
1905 June 26, Open Palatka, Florida
1930 Install Portsmouth Middle School, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Contents:School yearbooks [1]
1939 Install Flushing Meadows Park Westinghouse Time Capsules [2]
1940 Install Oglethorpe University, Brookhaven, Georgia Crypt of Civilization [3]
1957 Open Wall Street, New York City Installed 1888
1967-May, Install Titusville, Florida City's 100th anniversary, shaped like Gemini space capsule, due be opened 2017 [4]
1973-May 3, Install Alcatraz, California N37° 49.570 W 122° 25.337 [5]
1976-Sept6, Install 200th anniversary of the Nation, US Treasury Department
1991 Install Nackawic, New Brunswick In the head of the World's Largest Axe [6]
2013 -April 22, Opened First Lutheran Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Contents unknown
2013-May 16, Install City Hall, City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Contents: VIP letters include John Glenn, Barbara Eden [7]
2013-May 27, Install Vietnam Memorial, Englewood, Florida Contents-Vietnam Memorabilia
2013-June 11, Opened Portsmouth Middle School, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Contents:List of all students' names hand-written by the students. [8]
2013-June 19, Install Globe, AZ Roosevelt Dam 100th anniversary of dam, replaces a 1961 time capsule [9]
2013-July 11 Install Newport News, Virginia Welded into a ship, the USS Gerald R. Ford [10]
2014-March 19, Install Cocoa, FL Eastern Florida State College 50 year Time Capsule to be opened 2063 [11]
2015-February, Opened Cocoa Beach, Florida, Doubletree Hotel Installed 2001
2017-May, Open Titusville, Florida City's 150th anniversary, disappeared for while now at city hall, was installed in 1967 [7]
2038-July 11, Open Newport News, Virginia Contents:Navy coins, the aviator wings of the ship’s first commanding officer and sandstone used to build the White House and U.S. Capitol [10]
2055-January, Open Merrick Park, Coral Gables, Florida Contents: VIP letters include Barbara Bush Installed 2005
2063-May 16, Open City Hall, City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Contents include a digital picture slideshow of local history. Open for city's 100th anniversary. [7]
2073-May 3, Open Alcatraz, California Cement slab [5]

References

  1. ↑ Seacoast Online|News|June 12, 2013
  2. ↑ Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, The Story of Westinghouse Time Capsule of cupaloy (1939)
  3. ↑ Oglethorpe University official web site, retrieved 5 May 2013
  4. ↑ Marking time with time capsules, by Ray Osborne, Indian River Journal, 2013 Spring Summer edition
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Waymarking web site, retrieved 5 May 2013
  6. ↑ New Brunswick official tourism site, accessed 4 May 2013
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Marking time with time capsules, by Ray Osborne, Indian River Journal, 2013 Spring Summer edition
  8. ↑ Seacoast Online|News|June 12, 2013
  9. ↑ Arizona Silver Belt (2013-06-26). "Arizona Silver Belt Time capsule placed into Roosevelt Dam". Silverbelt.com. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1
  11. ↑ EFSC (2014-03-2014). "EFSC Looks Ahead with Time Capsule Burial". Eastern Florida State College. Retrieved 2014-04-12. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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