MCADENVILLE, USA - DECEMBER 1: People including children, gather to attend the tree lighting ceremony for the 70th illuminating of the in McAdenville, North Carolina, United States on December 1, 2025. The town where Thomas Edison’s 31st hydroelectric generator that was built and installed in 1884 by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company to light McAden Mills believed to be the first electrically lit textile mills in the world and attracting over a half a million visitors ( Peter Zay - Anadolu Agency )
MCADENVILLE, USA - DECEMBER 1: People including children, gather to attend the tree lighting ceremony for the 70th illuminating of the in McAdenville, North Carolina, United States on December 1, 2025. The town where Thomas Edison’s 31st hydroelectric generator that was built and installed in 1884 by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company to light McAden Mills believed to be the first electrically lit textile mills in the world and attracting over a half a million visitors ( Peter Zay - Anadolu Agency )
MCADENVILLE, USA - DECEMBER 1: People including children, gather to attend the tree lighting ceremony for the 70th illuminating of the in McAdenville, North Carolina, United States on December 1, 2025. The town where Thomas Edison’s 31st hydroelectric generator that was built and installed in 1884 by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company to light McAden Mills believed to be the first electrically lit textile mills in the world and attracting over a half a million visitors ( Peter Zay - Anadolu Agency )
MCADENVILLE, USA - DECEMBER 1: People including children, gather to attend the tree lighting ceremony for the 70th illuminating of the in McAdenville, North Carolina, United States on December 1, 2025. The town where Thomas Edison’s 31st hydroelectric generator that was built and installed in 1884 by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company to light McAden Mills believed to be the first electrically lit textile mills in the world and attracting over a half a million visitors ( Peter Zay - Anadolu Agency )
MCADENVILLE, USA - DECEMBER 1: People including children, gather to attend the tree lighting ceremony for the 70th illuminating of the in McAdenville, North Carolina, United States on December 1, 2025. The town where Thomas Edison’s 31st hydroelectric generator that was built and installed in 1884 by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company to light McAden Mills believed to be the first electrically lit textile mills in the world and attracting over a half a million visitors ( Peter Zay - Anadolu Agency )
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