On 30 September 1882 the Vulcan Street Plant at the Appleton Pulp Mill on the Fox River in Wisconsin became the first central-station plant in the world to generate electricity from waterpower, turning one of the new Edison dynamos with a waterwheel to light the mill and the home of Henry J. Rogers, the industrialist behind the venture. It began 26 days after the steam-driven Pearl Street station in New York, so its first is the hydroelectric one, and cheap waterpower soon proved the better economics.
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Milestone Year Milestone Date LocationAppleton, Wisconsin, United States 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. American Society of Civil Engineers Official Site
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Appleton, Wisconsin, located on the Fox River just 30 miles southwest of Green Bay.
1. American Society of Civil Engineers Official Site
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The driving force behind Appleton's entry into the age of electricity was Henry J. Rogers, a wealthy industrialist who owned the Appleton Pulp Mill, the Appleton Paper Mill, and the Appleton Gas Light Company.
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