Lake Mead

Lake Mead is actually the Colorado River backed up behind Hoover Dam, making it the nation's largest man-made reservoir: it covers 225 square miles, is 110 miles long, and has an irregular shoreline that extends for 550 miles.

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Boulder City

In the early 1930s Boulder City was built by the federal government to house 5,000 construction workers on the Hoover Dam project. A strict...

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Hoover Dam

In 1928 Congress authorized $175 million for construction of a dam on the Colorado River to control destructive floods, provide a steady water...

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