Southern Pine Electric Membership Corporation was energized at this site on September 12, 1939, sending electric power into 75 homes and businesses in rural areas of Escambia, Conecuh, Monroe, and Baldwin Counties for the first time. The cooperative was organized under an Executive Order signed by President F. D. Roosevelt on May 11, 1935. The organizing directors were Ben L. Martin, Jack McGowin, H. W. Pruett, A. M. Coley, C. B. Moore, E. M. Amos, and Alvin Mixon. Thomas McMillan served as corporation attorney, and Joe Larkins was manager. The cooperative's name was changed to Southern Pine Electric Cooperative on September 25, 1940.