On this day in 1936, Boulder Dam was fully completed. It was officially renamed Hoover Dam after President Herbert Hoover by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between Nevada and Arizona. The dam created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume when full. Construction began in 1931 during the Great Depression and was dedicated in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The heavily traveled US 93 ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened (above).
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