On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication.
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On this day in history Southern Nevada saw both an ending and a beginning. The end of a rail line and the beginning of construction on a highly-anticipated dam project. On September ...
The Boulder Dam: Later renamed the Hoover Dam, began operation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. The 60 ...
Nearing the 90th anniversary of its dedication, Hoover Dam has seen better days. The massive dam made urban life possible in the desert Southwest, creating the nation’s biggest reservoir: a source to ...
The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population. A 1922 compact allocated water rights from the ...
The first visitors to enter the renovated Hoover Dam Visitor Center on Tuesday morning made their way slowly through the building’s new exhibit, exploring each facet of life that made the dam’s ...
The Los Angeles to Salt Lake line set the foundation for Las Vegas to connect to the country’s major rail hub of Chicago and to the rest of America.
Hoover Dam’s newly renovated visitor center transports guests back to the Great Depression and into the lives of the people who built what was then the world’s tallest dam. The interactive exhibit ...
Matthew Wright apparently blocked the bridge in support of the QAnon movement. A man in Arizona has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges stemming from a June 2018 incident in which he created a ...
Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...
This column by former Nevada state archivist Guy Rocha first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on Aug. 29, 2004. No, the hard hat was not invented for construction workers on the Hoover Dam project ...
Around this time, 89 years ago, the Hoover Dam began supplying electricity to the city of Los Angeles. Finished in 1935 and ...
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