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Boydton: outhouses, early electricity & African American education
The News & Advance 27 Jul 1911, Lynchburg, VA Electricity A newspaper article written in June 1922 talked about the plumbing and electric improvements made to Boydton Institute. I was impressed, like the editor, because this is before the 1935 Roosevelt executive order creating the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), the 1938 Mecklenburg Co-op, and the…
Mecklenburg, Virginia Community History 