Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Electric Lights for Old Church

Providence, Rhode Island, 1924

The "Old First" Baptist Meeting House at Providence, R. I., the 150 year old home of the church organized by Roger Williams in 1634, has just been electrically illuminated. The installation was made under the direction of Prof. A. E. Watson of the Electrical Engineering Department, at Brown University.

—The Lancaster Daily Eagle, Lancaster, Ohio, June 2, 1924, page 4.

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