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Parker Echols and Mason Whatley are the muscle at Echols’ farm

Wed, 08/17/2022 - 5:00am

In a secret location around the Kildare area George Echols farms watermelons. The Echols’ have been watermelon farming for five generations.

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The countryside lights up

Wed, 08/17/2022 - 5:00am

By 1902 the city of Atlanta had electricity furnished by Southwestern Gas and Electric Company, with a power plant on West Street. However, it was more than 37 years later that homes outside the city limits were wired with electricity through the newly-formed Bowie Cass Electric Cooperative.