Remains found by construction workers working on a highway project near the Hoover Dam in 2009 have been identified, Arizona ...
Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover ... tall flagpole that sits between two winged figures, the pieces are surrounded by a terrazzo floor with a celestial map noting the dam ...
The “first concrete for the dam was placed on June 6, 1933,” and the “last on May 29, 1935,” at an average of “160,000 cubic yards of concrete placed in the dam per month” and a peak ...
Hoover Dam, in addition to being, at the time, the largest dam the world had ever seen, was conceived to trumpet man’s dominance over the forces of nature. In envisioning the architectural ...
What is the best way to visit the Hoover Dam ... or walk across the top of the dam itself, which stretches more than 700 feet ...