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Many reasons. It's massive size, the fact that it supplies much of the Nevada (including Las Vegas) region with water, it was built during the Great Depression and provided many with jobs, and also because of the horrid fact that some men helping to build it were cemented over after they fell.

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the fact that it supplies much of the Nevada (including Las Vegas)region with water.

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After President Herbert Hoover, who was president when it was completed.

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Hoover did a lot of public service work after he left the White House. He was instrumental in getting the dam built, so people decided he deserved the honor of having it named after him.

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Hoover Dam boarders Nevada and Arizona was named after President Herbert Hoover.

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It was named in honour of President Herbert Hoover, but once known as the Boulder Dam. It was built between 1931 and 1936.

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The Hoover Dam was at one time the largest dam in the world, which generated the most amount of electricity, but since then it has been surpassed by the Three Gorges Dam in China.

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Why is Hoover Dam called the greatest river?

because it has never failed and it provieds


Was Hoover Dam originally called Nover Dam?

Hoover Dam was originally called Boulder Dam.


What is the Boulder Dam called now?

It is called Hoover Dam.


The Hoover Dam on the Colorado river was once called?

Hoover Dam was originally known as "Boulder Dam."


What is the name of the dam on Colorado river between Arizona and Nevada?

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.


What was Hoover Dam first called?

boulder dam


What was Hoover Dam called prior to 1947?

Boulder Dam.


What was Hoover Dam on the Colorado River originally called?

It was called Boulder Dam.


What president was the dam named after?

Herbert Hoover - Boulder Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River was renamed to Hoover Dam in his honor.


Why is the Hoover Dam called the graetest dam?

It has never been called this. "Graetest" is not a word.


What was the water control built during Hoover's administration called?

It's called the Hoover Dam.


What caused the greatest growth in Las Vegas in the 1930s?

The building of Hoover Dam.