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Welcome Time Machine History of the Courthouse Wabash: the First City Lighted by Electricity Read the News Stories & Legends Who was Charles Brush? What are Arc Lamps? Timeline Photo Gallery Letters from the Community 100th Anniversary |
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Century of Light. 1st ed. Wabash: City of Wabash, 1981. Bump, Dorothea. "Wabash First Town In World To Be Lighted By Eletricity." , . , . "Celebration Poem." The Paper 5 March 1980, 9. , . "Century of Light." Wabash Plain Dealer 11 April 1979, . , . " Eyewitness Tell of Electrical Lighting Here in 1880." Wabash Plain Dealer 5 March 1969, . Johnson, Madolin. "Wabash's First Eletric Lights." 13 September 1936, . Knight, Colonel. "Colonel Knight Recalls Wabash Becoming First Lighted city." Wabash Plain Dealer March 1965, . , . "Thursday Is Anniverary of First Attempt to Light Any City in the World by Eletric." Wabash Plain Dealer 28 March 1927, . Ulery, Earleen. "Wabash Light Seen Round World." , . , . "." Wabash Courier March-April 1880, . , . "." Wabash Plain Dealer February-May 1880, . "Wabash To Erect Monument To Commemorate That Night Back In 1880 Eletric Lights Were Turned On The First Time In Any City In The World." Indianaplis News 26 July 1930, . Weaver, Ken. "Wabash First Lighted City." Wabash Plain Dealer 13 March 1954, . |
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| Many
people helped with our project. Their names are Mrs. Jones, Mr.
Miller, Matt Bever, Heidi Friermood, Larissa Shoemeker, Mrs. Snyder,
Mrs. Nicely, Mrs. Corn, Mr. Woodward, Mr. Vanlandingham, Mrs.
Kaehr, Mrs. Hoagland, Mr. Andy Eads (Wabash Plain Dealer), and
Mr. Richard Beiver
(Electric
Consumer.) To learn more about how they helped us, go
to our credits page. |
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| We also
used the Internet to find some information. See the our links page. |
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| Here are some quotes from people
who gave us permission to use graphics: Hi Mrs. Sparling and Michael, Thank you for your message about
our March issue. I really enjoyed Please use whatever information
and photos you would like for your Web Good luck. I'd like to see your
page when it's completed. Could you Best wishes and thanks for reading Electric Consumer, Richard G. Bieverrbiever@indremcs.org Jeff Lafavre: The photo of the dynamo was scanned from an old book and the copyright on it has expired. Therefore there is no problem using that one. Thanks for asking and good luck on your report. jeff_lafavre@ameritech.net |
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| This
web site was created by the 2004-2005 fourth grade Quest class of
the Metropolitan School District
of Wabash County, Indiana. |
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