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Pedernales Electric Cooperative electrified the Texas Hill Country

Posted 10/18/26

In the 1930s, Texans in Austin and San Antonio came home to lit rooms, humming refrigerators, and running water. Drive an hour into the Hill Country, though, and farmhouses still burned oil lamps, …

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