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 ...
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — On this day in history Southern Nevada saw both an ending and a beginning. The end of a rail line and the beginning of construction on a highly-anticipated dam project. On September ...
The Boulder Dam: Later renamed the Hoover Dam, began operation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator. The 60 ...