Modernization Archives - Appalachian History

First thing we got rid of were the oil lamps

We didn’t have electricity till I was about 8 years old. First thing we got rid of were the oil lamps. Other things just came on gradually.

My grandfather, James Amlin, was postmaster at Ironton in wartime. A big fire below the railroad on 2nd destroyed the Register office.

“It is believed that the 1900 company was the first to mass produce and market the electric washing machine,” says Dr. Lee Reynolds.

Thoney Pietro established a new record which stands to this day – he laid single handed a section of street 30 ft wide, 350 ft long–in 8 hrs!

Before the days of TVA & large power companies, electricity was supplied to rural areas by such pioneering men as Arthur Abernathy Miller.

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