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Working apace during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to bring electrical power to North Carolina were linesmen. As the author illuminated, their job was dangerous and goal formidable. Despite President Roosevelt’s creation of the Rural Electrification Authority in the 1930s, three decades passed before almost every residence was electrified.
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945; Rural Electrification Authority; Electricity--Rural installation, 1930s; Arista Cotton Mill--Salem ; Carolina Power and Light Company; International Lineman's Museum--Shelby; North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Solar energy; Nuclear energy; Thomson-Houston Electric Company