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Wabash: the First City
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, . A 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, .

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.

We also used the Internet to find some information.  See the our links page.


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
researching this story,  visiting Wabash and finding a way to illustrate
what that night might have been like and how the lights worked.

Please use whatever information and photos you would like for  your Web
page. If you need more info or photos, I'll try to help.

Good luck. I'd like to see your page when it's completed. Could you
send me a link or the Web address?

Best wishes and thanks for reading Electric Consumer,

Richard G. Biever
rbiever@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









This web site was created by the 2004-2005 fourth grade Quest class of the Metropolitan School District of Wabash County, Indiana.