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wis south border | My father left Europe where he had electric power, came to Wisconsin and worked at a farm with a Delco power plant. When he bought a farm in 1941 there was no electricity and milked with kerosene lantern and a flashlight. He bought a milker and powered it with a gasoline motor. When word of an REA program came through in 1946, he wired the farm to the 'new code'. The first night he lit every bulb on the farm to celebrate the new technology.
When I was a young man a neighbor told me the farms across the state line had electricity in 1938. | |
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Getting electric
