ON THIS DAY 📆 July 7th, 1930: Work officially begins on the new "Boulder Canyon Dam" - later to be named #HooverDam. Built during the Depression years, thousands of workers and their families descended into Black Canyon to help build this monumental structure. It took less than five years in extremely harsh conditions to complete the largest dam of its time, standing at 726 ft (221 m) in elevation. Nearly a century later, the Hoover Dam is a world-renowned structure and that has been designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's "Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders."
PHOTO: Black Canyon and the Colorado River just after the coffer dams were placed for work to begin on the foot of the Hoover Dam.
MOJO ADVENTURES
ON THIS DAY 📆 July 7th, 1930: Work officially begins on the new "Boulder Canyon Dam" - later to be named #HooverDam. Built during the Depression years, thousands of workers and their families descended into Black Canyon to help build this monumental structure. It took less than five years in extremely harsh conditions to complete the largest dam of its time, standing at 726 ft (221 m) in elevation. Nearly a century later, the Hoover Dam is a world-renowned structure and that has been designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's "Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders."
PHOTO: Black Canyon and the Colorado River just after the coffer dams were placed for work to begin on the foot of the Hoover Dam.
#History #Engineering #HooverDam #LasVegas #CivilEngineers #Nevada #AmericanHistory #Construction #Reclamation #Colorado #River
6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 22