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Rural Electrification 💡 Historical Markers
Markers highlighting the expansion of rural electrification and how it has changed rural life. Many markers highlight the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, which provided federal loans to cooperative electric power companies for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. The series also covers rural electrification efforts throughout the world.
By Mark Hilton, February 16, 2014
JTE Whigham Bridge
1 ► Alabama, Barbour County, Blue Springs — Pea River Electric Membership Corporation —  |
| 2 ► Alabama, Butler County, Greenville — Pioneer Electric Cooperative — |
| 3 ► Alabama, Clarke County, Coffeeville — Clarke-Washington Electric Membership Corporation — |
| 4 ► Alabama, Escambia County, Brewton — Southern Pine Electric Membership Corporation — |
| 5 ► Alabama, Lee County, Auburn — Auburn University and the Alabama Farmers Federation — |
| 6 ► Alabama, Pike County, Goshen — Goshen Substation — Reported missing |
| 7 ► Colorado, Lincoln County, Hugo — Hugo Country — |
| 8 ► Florida, Jackson County, Graceville — F-484 — When The Lights Came On — |
| 9 ► Georgia, Burke County, Munnerlyn — Site of Planters Electric Membership Corporation Organizational Meeting — |
| 10 ► Georgia, Carroll County, Carrollton — First “REA” Substation in Carroll County — |
| 11 ► Georgia, Houston County, Warner Robins — Flint Electric Membership Corporation — Reported missing |
| 12 ► Georgia, Lamar County, Barnesville — Lamar Electric Membership Corporation — |
| 13 ► Georgia, Lamar County, Barnesville — Lamar Electric Membership Corporation Incorporating Board of Directors — |
| 14 ► Georgia, Lamar County, Barnesville — 85-1 — Roosevelt’s Barnesville Speech — |
| 15 ► Georgia, Laurens County, Dudley — The Oconee Electric Membership Corporation — Dudley, Georgia — Incorporated November 18, 1938 — |
| 16 ► Georgia, Taylor County, Reynolds — Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative — |
| 17 ► Idaho, Minidoka County, Acequia — 341 — Minidoka Dam — |
| 18 ► Indiana, Boone County, Mechanicsburg — 06.1985.1 — Boone County REMC — |
| 19 ► Iowa, Franklin County, Hampton — Power To The People — Rural Electrification Act of 1936 — |
| 20 ► Kansas, Brown County, Horton — "Four Horsemen of the Lines" — |
| 21 ► Kansas, Brown County, Horton — 111 — First REA Project in Kansas — |
| 22 ► Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow — 2425 — First Farmers Rural Electric Co-Op Substation — |
| 23 ► Kentucky, Boyle County, Perryville — 2399 — Site of First Rural Electric Co-Op Substation in County — |
| 24 ► Kentucky, Christian County, Herndon — Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation — 1937 — |
| 25 ► Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester — 1894 — East KY. Power Cooperative — |
| 26 ► Kentucky, Owen County, Owenton — 1819 — First Rural Electric In County — |
| 27 ► Maryland, St. Mary's County, Lexington Park — The Great Depression and New Opportunities — 1930 - 1943 — |
| 28 ► Michigan, Ingham County, Okemos — Star Windmill — Model 24 — Flint & Walling Co Kendallville, Indiana — |
| 29 ► Mississippi, Alcorn County, Corinth — First Rural Electric Power Cooperative — |
| 30 ► Mississippi, Pontotoc County, Pontotoc — Pontotoc Electric Power Association — |
| 31 ► Nebraska, Red Willow County, McCook — 25 — George William Norris — 1861-1944 — |
| 32 ► New Hampshire, Sullivan County, Lempster — 182 — Lighting Up Rural New Hampshire — |
| 33 ► North Carolina, Edgecombe County, Princeville — E-111 — Rural Electrification — |
| 34 ► North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia — O-56 — R. Gregg Cherry — |
| 35 ► North Dakota, Traill County, Hillsboro — Nodak Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. — |
| 36 ► Ohio, Miami County, Piqua — 10-55 — Rural Electrification — |
| 37 ► Oklahoma, Beckham County, Carter — Highway — Community History — |
| 38 ► Pennsylvania, Adams County, Gettysburg, Cumberland Township — Rural Electrification — |
| 39 ► Pennsylvania, Bedford County, Bedford, Bedford Township — Rural Electrification — |
| 40 ► Pennsylvania, Bedford County, New Enterprise, South Woodbury Township — Rural Electrification — |
| 41 ► Pennsylvania, Bradford County, Wysox — Rural Electrification — |
| 42 ► Pennsylvania, Clarion County, Parker — Rural Electrification — |
| 43 ► Pennsylvania, Crawford County, Saegertown, Woodcock Township — Rural Electrification — |
| 44 ► Pennsylvania, Huntingdon County, Huntingdon, Smithfield Township — Rural Electrification — |
| 45 ► Pennsylvania, Indiana County, Indiana — Rural Electrification — |
| 46 ► Pennsylvania, Somerset County, Somerset — Rural Electrification — |
| 47 ► Pennsylvania, Tioga County, Mansfield — Rural Electrification — |
| 48 ► South Dakota, Beadle County, Wolsey — 694 — Wolsey: A Crossroad of the Heartland / Wolsey Notables — |
| 49 ► South Dakota, Clay County, Burbank, Fairview Township — 495 — First Rural Electric Cooperative — |
| 50 ► South Dakota, Clay County, Vermillion — 495 — First Rural Electric Cooperative — |
| 51 ► Tennessee, Robertson County, Springfield — Tennessee Light and Power Company — |
| 52 ► Texas, Bell County, Bartlett — 313 — Bartlett Electric Cooperative — |
| 53 ► Texas, Blanco County, Johnson City — E. Babe Smith — Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. — |
| 54 ► Texas, Blanco County, Johnson City — 16864 — Lyndon B. Johnson and Hill Country Electrification — |
| 55 ► Texas, Blanco County, Johnson City — Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. — |
| 56 ► Texas, Blanco County, Johnson City — The LBJ Legacy — |
| 57 ► Texas, Gillespie County, Stonewall — Farm History — |
| 58 ► Virginia, Greensville County, Emporia — Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative — |
| 59 ► West Virginia, Preston County, Arthurdale — History of the Houses — |
| 60 ► Wisconsin, Chippewa County, Chippewa Falls — 222 — Nation's First Cooperative Generating Station — |
| 61 ► Wisconsin, Juneau County, Mauston — 95 — Orland S. Loomis (1893–1942) — Governor–Elect 1942 — |
| 62 ► Wisconsin, Richland County, Boaz — 153 — Rural Electrification — |
| 63 ► Wisconsin, Waupaca County, Iola — 11 — The CWEC Electrified Rural Iola in 1939 — |
| 64 ► Ireland, Leinster, County Kilkenny, Kilkenny — William F. Roe — 1904-1982 — |