Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1903/12/00 One of two remaining city-based electric producers in 1903, Missouri-Edison merges with the Union Electric Light an Power Co by the end of the year. Owner Missouri Electric Light and Power Co City of St Louis
1904/00/00 Union Electric Light and Power Co builds the 36,000 kW coal-fired Ashley Street Plant to provide steam heat to downtown St Louis. It will power The Palace of Electricity's electric lights at the 1904 World's Fair. Owner North Riverfront Industrial Historic District City of St Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition
1904/00/00 Union Electric Light and Power Co doubles the production electricity for the World's Fair of 1904. The Ashley Street Plant combined with the newly acquired Missouri Electric substation deliver a brilliantly lighted exposition. Owner Missouri Electric Light and Power Co City of St Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition
1913/00/00 Union Electric contracts to buy power generated by the new Keokuk Dam (150 miles north of St Louis on the Mississippi River) allowing Union Electric to serve rural areas. Utility Lock and Dam No 19 Historic District Keokuk
1929/00/00 The design of Klipstein and Rathmann's Art Deco jewel of a substation coincides with Union Electric's decision to proceed with construction at Bagnell Dam and the Osage Plant. Owner Union Electric Substation, St Louis City of St Louis
1930/00/00 Union Electric's decides to proceed with construction at Bagnell Dam and the Osage Plant where work had started only a few months before the stock market crash. Utility Bagnell Dam and Osage Power Plant Lake Ozark
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