The Hoover Dam is named for President Herbert ... "The Golden Gate Bridge was one of the spectacular building projects of the 1930s that powered the nation's economic recovery," said the Smithsonian.

Andrew J. Dunar teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the co-author of Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. He answers a few questions about ...

He enlisted the interest of the Pacific Bridge Company ... “We’ll build anything for anybody, no matter what the location, type, or size.” After Hoover Dam, Six Companies stood as a ...

Authorized by President Calvin Coolidge in 1928, the dam took around five years to build ... tour across the Hoover Dam and the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.

On July 7, 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam. Today it is known as Hoover Dam. The dam, which is responsible for the creation of Lake Mead, is the best known and largest of the dams on the ...

Building landmarks like the Statue ... Initially known as the Boulder Dam during its five-year construction, Hoover Dam would become the highest dam in the world at the time.

One of her two most memorable places to live was Boulder Dam City, as her father was one of the head engineers in charge of building Hoover Dam ... to a luncheon/Bridge club founded by her ...

The dam inside the Monongahela River will be demolished on Wednesday afternoon and it will be one of 14 planned over the next ...

Arizona border, began on this day in history 1930. It covers over 220 acres and is a National Historic Landmark.

Nikada/Getty Images When it was built, the Eiffel Tower — which measures 1,063 feet — was the tallest building ... as the Boulder Dam during its five-year construction, Hoover Dam would ...