Army scenes on the Chickahominy

Army scenes on the Chickahominy
Harper''s pictorial history of the Civil War. (Chicago : Star Publishing Co. 1866)

Tuesday, June 14, 2022


 ELECTRIC LINE COMPLETED TO NEW KENT COURTHOUSE 

The Virginia Electric and Power Company recently completed its line from Eltham to New Kent Courthouse and for the first time in the history of the county the citizens of this section of the county are enjoying electric lights.

 About 30 customers have been hooked up on this line and many more are expected, to discard their old time kerosene and home made electric lights for the modern type of artificial light.

 Mr. Samuel Lacy, clerk of New Kent county, stated this week that the Courthouse was wired and has electric lights and any attorney desiring to look up any records or have any business there are welcome to come and make use of the building. 


-Tidewater Review,  21 January 1937



Much of the progress like this originated from the Rural Electrification Act. A later New Deal program, the Rural Electrification Act was passed by Congress in May of 1936; the act funded and empowered the Rural Electrification Administration. Created by Roosevelt in 1935, the Administration removed, according to Robert T. Beall, an Economist with the REA,

"the most important barriers restricting rural electrification prior to 1935 . .   the conditions and rates imposed on farmers if service were made available to them. Frequently the farmers had to pay for the distribution line, give the company title to the property, and then guarantee high minimum charges over a long period of years."


 "In 1934, only 7.6% of Virginia farms had electricity; by 1950, more than 90% did." 


Reddy Kilowatt- ™




 

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