Historical Marker

Site of Planters Electric Membership Corporation Organizational Meeting

Munnerlyn · Burke County

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Organized in 1936 in a plantation commissary, Planters EMC was among Georgia's early electric cooperatives, bringing power to rural Burke and neighboring counties under New Deal-era rural electrification.

About this site

Site of Planters Electric Membership Corporation Organizational Meeting is a historical marker in Munnerlyn, Burke County. It is one of 29 historical markers documented in Burke County, among 109 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.9302, -82.0209 near Munnerlyn. The nearest cataloged historic site is Bellevue Plantation (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Buck Head Creek, The 14th Corps at Lumpkin's Station, and Cavalry Skirmish at Thomas' Station.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 32.9302, -82.0209 · Munnerlyn, Burke County

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Nearby in Burke County

The 14th Corps at Lumpkin's Station

Cavalry Skirmish at Thomas' Station