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"After months of darkness light has come to guide the weary traveler home.
And we have found that just for pay, the dreary night has turned to day.
Oh, that our trials might now be over, Oh, that our pastures might be clover.
Henceforth and forever this city shall be lit by its own electricity.
And in the years to come we'll say, that was for us a glorious day,
When first the streets and stores at night used arc and incandescent light."
F. B. Lambert had an idea that the event was important. His poem appeared in the Rochester Post to commemorate Rochester's first public utility: an electric lighting plant. Learn about RPU's humble beginnings and how it grew into one of Minnesota's largest utilities.
1885 - 1915
1916 - 1949
1950 - Present
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