HISTORY - On #ThisDayinHistory 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. It would take 21,000 men a tireless five years to build what was the largest dam of its time, as well
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The Greatest Dam in the World": Building Hoover Dam (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service)
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