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- Then and Now: Huntington Park is born - Mon, 05 May 2014 PST
The earliest white settlers around the Spokane Falls in the 1870s lit candles and lanterns against the dark of evening, but Thomas Edison and the incandescent bulb would change that in the 1880s. Edison had already invented a durable electric light bulb when he and other technical pioneers established the first electrical utility in New York in 1882. Railroad magnate Henry Villard, who had ...
May 5, 2014 - The Spokesman-Review