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In 1908, the Twin State Gas and Electric Company acquired the Bennington and Hoosick Falls utility companies including the Hoosick Falls Water Power and Light Company, Hoosick Falls Electric Company, Hoosick Falls Illuminating Company, Bennington Electric Light and Power Company . The two systems were tied together with a transmission line between the two communities. By 1925, Twin State supplied electricity to the Bennington area, as far north as Arlington and from the Hoosick Falls area to North Hoosick. The power plant was on East Main Street, about 150 feet south of the Roaring Branch River, now the site of Central Vermont Public Service Corporation’s substation. The plant had four hand fired steam boilers to power the steam engines which generated the electricity and a water wheel powered by a nearby dam for auxiliary purposes. The Hoosick Falls power plant, built about 1898, was on the Hoosic River, off route 22, one mile north of Hoosick Falls. Today, the building is gone, but the dam is still there generating electricity. Starting in 1894, the power company also furnished power to the trolley system in Hoosick. In 1940, the New York Power and Light Company bought the rights from Twin State Gas and Electric Company to sell power in New York State. Twin State was merged with Central Vermont Public Service Corporation in 1943. For some years, Central Vermont Public Service continued to own and operate the hydro plant in Hoosick Falls, transmitting the power to Bennington. The plant was later abandoned and razed. |
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