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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

Install
Date 		Status Location Notes Cite
1888 Open Wall Street, New York City Opened 1957
29 September 1894 Open Kingussie, Scotland 29 September 1894 newspaper; bottle believed to contain whisky [1]
29 September 1896 Open Perth Observatory, Perth, Australia Set on 29 September 1896, contents included X-ray apparatus and X-ray image donated by William John Hancock. Opened in 1996. [2]
28 July 1897 Install Northam Railway Institute, Northam, Western Australia Set on 28 July 1897, contents included several copies of the Northam Advertiser newspaper and several coins. No open date. [3]
26 June 1905 Open Palatka, Florida Opened in 1966.
1930 Install Portsmouth Middle School, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Contents:School yearbooks [4]
1939 Install Flushing Meadows Park Westinghouse Time Capsules [5]
1940 Install Oglethorpe University, Brookhaven, Georgia Crypt of Civilization [6]
May 1967 Install Titusville, Florida City's 100th anniversary, shaped like Gemini space capsule, due be opened 2017 [7]
3 May 1973 Install Alcatraz, California N37° 49.570 W 122° 25.337 [8]
6 September 1976 Install 200th anniversary of the Nation, US Treasury Department
1991 Install Nackawic, New Brunswick In the head of the World's Largest Axe [9]
18 April 2000 Install Piscataway, New Jersey, Livingston Campus, Tillett Hall Installed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Livingston College - to be opened in 2029
29 September 2010 Install Santiago, Chile 200th anniversary of Chile - to be opened in September 2110 [10]
22 April 2013 Opened First Lutheran Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Contents unknown
16 May 2013 Install City Hall, City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Contents: VIP letters include John Glenn, Barbara Eden [11]
27 May 2013 Install Vietnam Memorial, Englewood, Florida Contents-Vietnam Memorabilia
11 June 2013 Opened Portsmouth Middle School, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Contents:List of all students' names hand-written by the students. [12]
19 June 2013 Install Globe, AZ Roosevelt Dam 100th anniversary of dam, replaces a 1961 time capsule [13]
11 July 2013 Install Newport News, Virginia Welded into a ship, the USS Gerald R. Ford [14]
19 March 2014 Install Cocoa, FL Eastern Florida State College 50 year Time Capsule to be opened 2063 [15]
February 2015 Opened Cocoa Beach, Florida, Doubletree Hotel Installed 2001
May 2017 Open Titusville, Florida City's 150th anniversary, disappeared for while now at city hall, was installed in 1967 [11]
11 July 2038 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 [14]
January 2055 Open Merrick Park, Coral Gables, Florida Contents: VIP letters include Barbara Bush Installed 2005
16 May 2063 Open City Hall, City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Contents include a digital picture slideshow of local history. Open for city's 100th anniversary. [11]
3 May 2073 Open Alcatraz, California Cement slab [8]

References

  1. ^ "121-year-old time capsule found at bridge near Kingussie". BBC. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ^ Editor. (30 September 1896). The Perth Observatory. Laying the Foundation Stone. The West Australian. Perth. Western Australia. Page 2.
  3. ^ The Northam Advertiser: Western Australia, Saturday 31 July 1897, page 3
  4. ^ Seacoast Online|News|June 12, 2013
  5. ^ Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, The Story of Westinghouse Time Capsule of cupaloy (1939)
  6. ^ Oglethorpe University official web site, retrieved 5 May 2013
  7. ^ Marking time with time capsules, by Ray Osborne, Indian River Journal, 2013 Spring Summer edition
  8. ^ a b Waymarking web site, retrieved 5 May 2013
  9. ^ New Brunswick official tourism site, accessed 4 May 2013
  10. ^ "Cápsula Bicentenario quedó enterrada por un siglo en Plaza de Armas" [Bicentennial Capsule was buried for one century in Plaza de Armas]. Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (in Spanish). Santiago. 29 September 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  11. ^ a b c Marking time with time capsules, by Ray Osborne, Indian River Journal, 2013 Spring Summer edition
  12. ^ Seacoast Online|News|June 12, 2013
  13. ^ Arizona Silver Belt (2013-06-26). "Arizona Silver Belt Time capsule placed into Roosevelt Dam". Silverbelt.com. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  14. ^ a b [1][dead link]
  15. ^ EFSC (March 19, 2014). "EFSC Looks Ahead with Time Capsule Burial". Eastern Florida State College. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
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