Roosevelt Dam
Americannoun
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Construction began in 1903 on the Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona, which Roosevelt himself dedicated in 1911.
From Washington Times • May 30, 2023
Her family moved to Arizona Territory a few years later and soon benefited from the first great reclamation project, Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022
The first major Newlands project, which turned little Phoenix, Arizona, into an agricultural empire and now the nation’s fifth-largest city, bears the name Theodore Roosevelt Dam.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2018
Army scout and guide, was killed by a falling boulder during construction of the road north of Roosevelt Dam.
From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2015
When in the spring of 1911 I visited the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, and opened the reservoir, I made a short speech to the assembled people.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore
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