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Hoover Dam, also known as its original name Boulder Dam, is a dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression. Hoover Dam was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt; "This morning I came, I saw, and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind. Ten years ago the place where we gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert. In the bottom of the gloomy canyon whose precipitous walls rose to height of more than a thousand feet, flowed a turbulent, dangerous river. The site of Boulder City was a cactus-covered waste. And the transformation wrought here in these years is a twentieth century marvel." (Speech by Roosevelt at the Dedication of Boulder Dam, September 30, 1935) Hoover Dam's construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. These pictures are taken in February 2011 and shows just a few angles of what Hoover Dam, or Boulder Dam if you want, has to offer. |
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