Roosevelt Dam
Americannoun
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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 1915, state offices were closed in the Salt River Valley as thousands gathered to witness the first spillage of water over Roosevelt Dam.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 11, 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
In a story May 12 about Arizona history, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Theodore Roosevelt dedicated Roosevelt Dam on May 18, 1911.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 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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