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April 8, 1981 [ 4 ] Designated NHL. August 20, 1985 [ 5 ] Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, 24 mi (39 km) east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. Lake Mead provides water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada as well as some ...
Francis Trenholm Crowe ( October 12, 1882 – February 26, 1946) was a Canadian civil engineer and employee of Morrison-Knudsen, who later became in 1931, the General Construction Superintendent of the Hoover Dam construction contract. Born in Trenholmville, Quebec, Crowe attended the Governor Dummer Academy, matriculating to the University of ...
On this day 80 years ago, a crowd of 20,000 people gathered in Nevada to watch President Franklin Delano Roosevelt commemorate the completion of the Hoover Dam. The idea for a multipurpose dam had ...
Formation of Lake Mead began in 1935, less than a year before Hoover Dam was completed. [4] The area surrounding Lake Mead was protected as a bird refuge in 1933 [ 5 ] and later established as the Boulder Dam Recreation Area in 1936 [ 6 ] and the name was changed to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in 1947. [ 7 ]
A Canadian postal code ( French: code postal) is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. [ 1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters.
Morrison–Knudsen (MK) was an American civil engineering and construction company, with headquarters in Boise, Idaho. [7] [8]MK designed and constructed major infrastructure throughout the world and was one of the consortium of firms that built Hoover Dam, San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and many other large projects of American infrastructure.
Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [1] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, [2] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes.