The 150th anniversary of the receipt of the first Trans-Atlantic cable, sent from Queen Victoria of Great Britain to President James Buchanan, was celebrated in the lobby of Bedford Springs Resort on Sunday, August 17. Widely hailed as a phenomenal transatlantic engineering feat, the Atlantic Telegraph Cable took years to develop, decades to refine and required international cooperation and financial support. The first electric message sent by Queen Victoria is the first ever to traverse the treacherous North Atlantic through hundreds of miles of small metal cable painstakingly laid on the deep sea floor. Bedford Springs Resort, which re-opened as a golf resort, spa and conference in July 2007 following a $120-million restoration and expansion, was the "summer White House" during the Buchanan administration. Donald Walters, a docent from Wheatland (Buchanan's home and museum) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania played the role of President Buchanan.