This farm was the first in Wisconsin to obtain central station electric power from a rural electric cooperative. James Hanold constructed the farm home and wired it for electric service in 1917. The Richland Cooperative Electric Association, incorporated on January 8, 1936, energized the first section of its rural electric system built into this area and connected this farm to its lines on May 7, 1937. Loan funds available to all electric power suppliers to aid in electrifying rural America came from the Rural Electrification Administration, created by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 11, 1935, and continued as an agency of the federal government by Act of Congress on May 20, 1936.