On November 27, 1887, the Edison Electric Light Company lighted the first place in Salida. The Salida Mail reported: ‘The incandescent lamps that were lighted on F St. Bridge last evening caused much surprise on account of the brilliantlight that covered such a wide field.’ The process had begun earlier that year in April, when the city council approved H.H. Brown, esquire, to build a power plant in town. An ordinance was then filed in May...