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This line was along a well-travelled road along the northern tip of town adjoining Hull, MA. At first, the Hingham utility only provided street lighting there since residential service delivery to that area was costly. According to the utility's 1910 report: "there were several Hingham customers adjacent to West's Corner (the town line) and were served by the Hull Light Plant because of the high expense of extending Hingham lines to that location. However, owing to the fact that new houses were being built in that area, it was becoming economically feasible to string lines to this far-corner so they could be added to the Light Plant's customer base. It was proposed that this project be undertaken in 1911 at a cost of $400." It was...and new poles replaced the old ones shown along with updated crossarms, insulators and wire. "It was important that lines in this geographical area be built with extra ruggedness to offset Mother Nature's fury as evidenced by numerous severe coastal storms the town has experienced since the Light Plant began operation sixteen years ago." Also planned for the coming year was a once-cent reduction in the town's electric rate, bringing it down to 10 cents per kilowatt hour. By the end of 1910, the Light Plant had 576 customers; 37 added during the year. |