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The Red Wing Project
In 1923, the University of Minnesota launched the Red Wing Project, an experiment to bring electricity to rural farmers in the state. This experiment, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, inspired 23 other states to conduct their own electrification studies and led to the establishment of the national Rural Electrification Administration.
Image: Farmer W.A. Benitt with electric pump, 1938. [credit: MN Historical Society]
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