For years, rural people in Georgia watched their neighbors in cities and towns enjoy the benefits of electrical service with little hope of obtaining this service for themselves. Rural families felt this lack keenly. Only the very rich could afford to have lines run to their properties in rural areas, but in cities, even people of modest means could afford electric service. Some people living in rural areas were so eager for electricity that they wired their homes in hopes that some day they would get electricity. Finally, in 1935 rural communities heard that the government was going to help them get electrical power through an agency called the REA, and a ripple of excitement passed from farm to farm around the state and the nation. Power was finally coming to rural America!
