Text and Photos by Kim Whorton Tripp
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Can you imagine a bill for $2.90 for one month’s
electric service? Well, that’s just what one member of Four County
Electric Membership Corporation paid… in 1940. On display at the
Tarkil Branch Farm’s
Homestead Museum in Duplin County is the original paperwork that describes
when David and Ludie Fountain first got electric service from the cooperative
in April 1940. All the original paperwork from when they became cooperative
members and a booklet explaining how to use their electricity are also
on display. The Fountain’s home was
the last one on Four County EMC lines. Jones-Onslow EMC’s service
begins less than a mile down the road. Those folks who lived in between
had to wait another four or five years for the electric lines to reach
them.
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