PIONEER SERVICE

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By the turn of the century, electricity had become the driving force for prosperity and was available in every major city. In 1920, the Alabama Power Company extended lines to Greenville and provided service, but that was as far as they came; there was no profit in serving sparsely populated rural areas.

By the 1930s there was still no electricity in the countryside. Because they had electricity, cities and towns were able to pull themselves out the Great Depression, but on the farms times were hard and life seemed destined to go on as it had for generations. By late 1938, line crews from the Butler County Electric Membership Corporation (the predecessor of Pioneer Electric Cooperative) were setting poles, stringing wire and installing transformers along county roads in Butler, Dallas, Lowndes and Wilcox counties. During the following spring, the Cooperative energized the first 81 miles of line, and farm families shared an unforgettable experience as light bulbs began turning on across the area.

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