It provided jobs during the depression, it provided a water reserve that spurred growth and agricultural irrigation, it provided cheap hydroelectric power, it ended flood damage and it provided a mighty fine recreational fishing hole.
Hoover Dam was built by people.
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.
A nickname for the Hoover Dam is Boulder Dam.
16,000 people built the hoover dam and it was ONLY men, no women
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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.
Hoover Dam was originally called Boulder Dam.
Hoover dam opened in 1920
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.