Jackson EMC Records document the work of the cooperative to provide and promote the use of electricity throughout its service area and more broadly the changes ushered in by electrification. As of 2013, Jackson EMC provides electric service to more than 210,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in 10 metro Atlanta and northeast Georgia counties. The next several decades saw increasing growth, despite the economic downturn of the 1970s, with the cooperative tripling in size between 19. By 1960, electricity had reached 98% of homes and businesses within Jackson EMC's service area. In April of that year, power was delivered for the first time to farms and homes in the rural counties of Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Franklin, Gwinnett, Hall, Jackson and Madison. Workers broke ground in Jefferson, Georgia, in January 1939 for construction of Jackson EMC's first transmission lines. The cooperative was made possible through the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), a program of the Roosevelt Administration's New Deal. Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) is a not-for-profit, member-owned electric cooperative chartered in 1938 to serve electricity to the then-rural areas of northeast Georgia. The films can be watched from on the Jackson EMC playlist on the Russell Library Audiovisual YouTube account. Also included as part of this collection are four Rural Electrification Administration (REA) films, dating from between 1956 to 1968. The records document the work of the cooperative to provide and promote electricity throughout its service area and includes photographs, publications, financial reports, histories and scrapbooks. Russell Library for Political Research and StudiesĪbstract: Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) is a not-for-profit, member-owned electric cooperative chartered in 1938 to serve electricity to the then-rural areas of northeast Georgia. (23.9 linear feet and 60 audiovisual items) Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (Jefferson, Ga.)
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