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Rural Electrification

Crawford County · dedicated 1986 · PA 198 at Woodcock Creek Lake/Reservoir near dam end of parking lot, E of PA 86, Woodcock Twp.

Here on August 5, 1936, the State's first rural electric pole was placed by the Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Incorporated on April 30, 1936, this was Pennsylvania's first such cooperative. By 1941, thirteen more had been formed in this State.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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