It began as Boulder Dam.
The Hoover Dam is located on the border between Nevada and Arizona.
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Hoover dam (Boulder) was named in honor of Pres. Herbert W. Hoover.
Yes, they lost alot of workers to the rock slides and other randoms of nature, it is said that there are workers corpses inside the concrete that makes the base of the Hoover Dam.
There were over a hundred people who died building the Hoover Dam, and they died from many causes. There is a link below to a section of an article on the Hoover Dam dealing with the deaths of workers.
There are six of them on the Colorado river. Glenn Canyon dam, Hoover dam, Davis dam, Parker dam, Palo Verde diversion dam and Imperial dam.
The two names are referring to the same dam, so one is not older than the other. Hoover Dam was named for Herbert Hoover, the 31st US President. According to the Bureau of Land Management website, the name of the dam built as part of the Boulder Canyon project was always "Hoover Dam". That was stated by the Secretary of the Interior on Sept 30, 1930 when construction started and the name was made official by an Act of Congress on February 14, 1931. The name "Hoover Dam" was never officially changed. It was political pettiness that perpetuated the names "Boulder Canyon Dam" and "Boulder Dam". In 1947, resolutions were passed in the House and the Senate and signed by President Truman to restore the original name.
A nickname for the Hoover Dam is Boulder Dam.
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Hoover Dam was originally called Boulder Dam.
Hoover dam opened in 1920
Hoover Dam was built by people.
Herbert Hoover - Boulder Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River was renamed to Hoover Dam in his honor.
When the dam was in its planning stages, in 1930, Herbert Hoover was President. It was then in 1930 that Secretary Ickes stated publicly that Hoover Dam was to be built, noting that naming a dam after a president was appropriate. In 1933, when Hoover was not re-elected, the name was reverted to Boulder Dam. It remained Bould Dam until 1947, when an act of Congress officially re-named the dam Hoover Dam.
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