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134 Years Ago Today: Wyoming’s First Electric Lights
134 Years Ago Today: Wyoming’s First Electric Lights
134 Years Ago Today: Wyoming’s First Electric Lights
Today marks an interesting anniversary in Wyoming history. 134 years ago, on January 5, 1883, Cheyenne became the first town in the west to install electric lights. Wyoming's facination with electricity began five years earlier when Thomas Edison and a group of scientists conducted an experiment near Rawlins...