Hoover Dam once known as Boulder Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers and cost over one hundred lives.
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