High Shoals

Two miles south on Rocky River

Anderson Water, Light, & Power Co.,

organized in 1894 by

William C. Whitner,

was successful the next year

in transmitting electricity over

the distance of six miles

to Anderson.

This achievement was a herald

of the industrial revolution

in the South.

Marker is at the intersection of Broadway Lake Road and Belton Highway (U.S. 78), on the right when traveling east on Broadway Lake Road.

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