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 ...
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The Desert Railroad That Built a Miracle Then Vanished Beneath Lake Mead
Long before Lake Mead became a symbol of drought and decline, its cliffs echoed with the roar of trains carrying materials to build the Hoover Dam. The Historic Railroad Trail follows those abandoned ...
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication. Five years earlier, the Secretary of the Interior ...
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 sinful river -- The road to Black Canyon -- The arch https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!973253 ...
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