Site of Planters Electric Membership Corporation
On August 5, 1936, an organizational meeting of the Planters Electric Membership Corporation was held in the Bellevue Plantation commissary building. Those present and elected to become officers were Porter W. Carswell, President; Frank M. Cates, Vice-President; Joel Chappell, Secretary-Treasurer; and John Reese. The Planters Electric Membership Corporation was officially incorporated on November 12, 1936 thus being the third cooperative to be formed in Georgia and only the seventeenth in the United States
PLANTERS EMC GEORGIA 017
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Ken Moser.