The path of power in Central Texas Feb. 9, 1935 Aug. 2, 1939 Aug. 3, 1939 Oct. 24, 1939 March 4, 1940 Sept. 6, 1940 November 1942 June 1958 May 1969 1978 January 2012 2013 LCREC board meets Agreement reached for LCREC reports First youth leadership students Energy-efficient Economic and Lower Colorado River Lower Colorado River LCREC board of 1940 Martin G. Hyltin Henry Bluebonnet, PEC 2003 at temporary LCRA to sell LCREC and 646 miles of line named general from LCREC membership population growth in Authority is established Electric Cooperative directors holds its first New headquarters Umscheid end long-running Former LCRA Eco Home Bluebonnet service and five years later has (later renamed meeting at the Littlefield headquarters in PEC rural transmission and built and 1,468 building for LCREC manager of LCREC travel to Washington, D.C., for named general agreements under general manager opens on area reflected by more four dams on Colorado Bluebonnet Electric Building in Austin; elects Giddings, distribution lines acquired members connected opens in downtown and PEC after series of annual Government-in-Action manager of which LCRA managed Mark Rose named Bluebonnet than 84,000 meters River built or under Cooperative) receives C.A. McEachern of with Congressman from Texas Power and after paying $5 Giddings. early superintendents. Youth Tour. Bluebonnet. co-ops’ daily operations. general manager service center construction for flood state charter to Travis County as board Lyndon B. Johnson Light Co. membership fee. of Bluebonnet. campus in and 11,000 miles of control and electric In Bartlett, Texas: provide electricity president. attending. Brenham. line. generation. First house in the to rural residents in nation energized Washington, Fayette, under REA. Austin, Lee, Bastrop, January 1946 1951 Jan. 1, 1965 February 1997 March 1936 Travis, Williamson, April 6, 1940 After near standstill in Wirtz, LCREC name changed David Caldwell, Hays and , built new line construction W. Peterson Bartlett Electric Tom Miller Dam Starcke to Bluebonnet Electric May 11, 1935 by LCRA and the City of during World War II, REA selected as Cooperative north of Guadalupe counties. dams Cooperative to end confusion President Franklin Austin, completed at the approves $250,000 loan Bluebonnet Austin energizes 59 completed about co-op’s relationship with Roosevelt signs site of two previous dams to LCREC to construct above Lake LCRA. Bluebonnet reports general manager. executive order creating miles of line to serve 110 damaged by floods. LCREC headquarters in Giddings. 300 miles of rural lines. Travis. 16,337 members in 11 counties Rural Electrification farm homes with power Wirtz Dam under construction. Bluebonnet’s Eco Home in Brenham. from Bartlett municipal and 55 employees. Administration. REA 1938 backs low-cost loans for plant; it is the first REA 2007 LCRA completes unfinished on the electric cooperatives. project in the nation to Hamilton Dam May 1942 Bluebonnet opens new headquarters in turn on electricity. Colorado River, renames it for U.S. Rep. J.P. Buchanan LCRA completes Mansfield Dam on Lake Travis. Bastrop County; in 2014, the co-op has some 2014 of Texas; Inks Dam completed. Oct. 1, 1956 270 full-time employees. Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative ‘Live Better celebrates its 75th year of providing Electrically’ electricity in Central Texas. May 8, 1938 appliance sales The co-op looks to a future of consumer-controlled energy Pedernales Electric promotion management tools and Cooperative is organized campaign kicked state-of-the-art energy efficiency in Johnson City to serve off by LCREC, PEC technology in all areas of its the Hill Country west of and LCRA. operations, as well as continued Austin. FDR creates the LBJ in the late Tom Miller Dam dedication ceremony held Mansfield Dam (originally Marshall Ford innovation and leadership for its REA in 1935. Buchanan Dam in 1939. 1930s. on April 6, 1940. Dam) under construction in 1938. Bluebonnet’s headquarters in Bastrop. growing service area. Design by Joe Stafford.