Pioneer Electric Cooperative

The Butler County Electric Membership Corporation was formed as a rural electric cooperative in Greenville in July 1938, and the first home receiving electricity from the cooperative was located near here. Its original Board of Directors included Dr. C. Wall, president, W.M. Harrison, Dr. R.L. Jernigan, Arthur Bennett, E.L. Cunningham, D.P. Robbins, P.E. Youngblood, H.M. Hardy, and T.J. Middleton, and Edwin Wallace was its first manager. In 1940, the cooperative's name was changed to Pioneer Electric Cooperative, and it expanded to provide service in Dallas, Lowndes, and Wilcox counties as well as Butler.

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