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
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
On this date in 1911, the construction of Roosevelt Dam was completed.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 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
From the big Roosevelt Dam and the drops of the level in the canal connected therewith, twenty-six19 thousand horse-power will be developed incidental to the reclamation of two hundred thousand acres of land.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello
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