A Brownfield Gone Bright
By John Spizzirri
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 Brockton, Massachusetts, a former industrial town of nearly 94,000 people, has certainly had its share of fame and notoriety. It is the birthplace of heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and the setting for the apprehension of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Italian immigrants arrested for alleged robbery and murder in 1920.
A thriving center for shoe manufacturing, Brockton was built on the back of industry. But its greatest legacy, perhaps, is one of technological innovation. It was here in March 1883, where famed inventor Thomas Alva Edison opened the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brockton. And by October of the same year, he threw the switch giving Brockton the first three-wire underground system which evenly distributed electricity through a central power station, a system eventually utilized globally.
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