LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On Sept. 30, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam, only he wouldn’t use that name for the dedication. Five years earlier, the Secretary of the Interior ...
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - On October 9, 1936, the Hoover Dam began using the Colorado River to provide electricity for the city of Los Angeles. Initially called the Boulder Dam, construction started under ...