Oregon City was home of world’s first electric power grid

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.

Entrepreneurs figured out how to send power long distances for the first time in history; later, after a flood wiped out power station, they pioneered alternating-current transmission. (Oregon City, Clackamas County; 1889) (For text and pictures, see http://www.offbeatoregon.com/1201a-oregon-city-home-of-worlds-first-power-grid.html)