A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, Hoover Dam was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. 5,000 working men and their families came to live ...

Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...

People came from across the country to witness the construction of Hoover Dam. One worker's daughter compared the scene to a hill of ants. "It was just fantastic to watch... It was a monument task ...

A visit to the Hoover Dam is just ... deep into the heart of the dam, giving you access to areas typically off-limits to the public. Make sure to allocate enough time for your visit.

THE completion, just announced, of the great concrete structure originally known as the Boulder Dam, but afterwards officially designated the Hoover Dam ... estimated at the time at 165 million ...

A 25-year-old woman who was an apparent heiress to the Yellow Pages fortune was shot to death in Arizona not far from Hoover Dam in early 1979 ... apartment for a short time, according to a ...

Everything to know about seeing Hoover Dam, including the security checkpoint, whether there's a lot of walking and how to get dam-tour tickets.

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...