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Roosevelt Dam

American  

noun

  1. a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1,080 feet (329 meters) long.


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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

On this date in 1904, the Salt River rose in the flood over the uncompleted Roosevelt Dam, submerging the working equipment.

From Washington Times • Oct. 10, 2018

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

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