As proposed, the building of the Boulder Dam would constitute the largest public works project in the history of the United States to date. Construction and engineering interests were eager to ...

Prepared under the Kinkaid Act and submitted to Congress, the report recommended construction of a high dam on the Colorado River at or near Boulder Canyon. The report also suggested that the ...

It was on December 21, 1928, that President Coolidge signed the Boulder Dam Act, which provided for the construction of a great dam on the Colorado River. The scheme had several objects.

Gone is the dam generations of Hutchinson residents grew up with, replaced by a boulder-filled structure that looks fitting for Fred Flintstone’s hometown of Bedrock. Several curving rows of ...

In 1930, construction began on the Giant Boulder Dam, which in 1947 was renamed the Hoover Dam. In 1946, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) became the first American to be canonized a saint ...