Hull Municipal Lighting Plant, MA, c.1950. Side View of 23kv Cedar Pole, Paragon Park

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted September 13, 2021

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This line (upon the upper two crossarms with the large multipart insulators) was built in the later 1930s by the New England Electric System. It originally fed a substation behind the Hull, MA Municipal Light Plant facilities with 4kv primary circuits leading from it; for decades. The pole you see had six Locke 1035 multipart insulators with nice mahogany glazes upon tall old, skinny metal pins with slight tilting; probably from the hurricanes they withstood. Surely, a this pole is a fond memory of mine as my family visited the nearby beach!! Not to mention the terrific poletop views I enjoyed from the ferris wheel!! During the mid-to-later 1960s newer poles (including this one) were came along. These are owned by the Hull Light Plant and supported13.8kv lines with primary metering from the private utility's 23 to 13.8kv substation at the town line

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