First Rea Project in Kansas

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	First Rea Project In Kansas
Kansas State Historical Marker
Brown County
	US-73, Brown County Roadside turnout, east of Horton , KS, USA

	At this site the first power pole for the Brown-Atchison Electric cooperative was dedicated in a special ceremony on November 10, 1937. Brown-Atchison was the first rural electric project to energize in Kansas financed by loan funds from the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).