Under General Palmer's direction the Kansas Pacific was extended from Kansas City, Missouri, reaching Denver, Colorado in August 1870.
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The first commercially produced Christmas tree lamps were manufactured in strings of nine sockets by the Edison General Electric Company of Harrison, New Jersey and advertised in the December 1901 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal.
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In 1895, U.S. President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electrically lit Christmas tree in the White House.
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A year later it moved its factory from Menlo Park to East Newark (Harrison), New Jersey.
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