Northeast Blackout of 1965 - Unaffected Areas

Unaffected Areas

Some areas within the affected region were not blacked out. Municipal utilities in Holyoke, Massachusetts Hartford, Connecticut, Braintree, Massachusetts and Taunton, Massachusetts, Fairport, New York and Walden, New York had their own power plants, which operators disconnected from the grid and which were able to sustain local loads.

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