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Contributor: Marie (Sommers) Hardesty
Source: Personal Collection

 

Laper Electric Company Plant, ca. 1914

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The post card photograph, postmarked 1914, pictures the blockhouse plant constructed in 1912 by Jesse Laper to generate electricity for the village. The building, still standing, was located just to the west of West Street between Washington and Church streets.