I recently finished reading "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America [Paperback] Erik Larson [[Author)".
The book had a lot of information on some of the first wide spread uses of electricity in the nation. The Chicago World's Fair may have been the turning point of using AC vs DC on a large scale basis. Detroit was famous for our Moonlight Towers and electric buses. You can't find a Shorpy picture that doesn't have dozens of crisscrossed electrical lines running everywhere. Some of the electrical poles had near 20 crosspieces!
Feel free to share any old photographs, anecdotes, or arcane knowledge you may have of the early Electrification of Detroit!
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