Hoover Dam Timeline of Events

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Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt...

Timeline of Events

1930

7.7.1930

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

1931

8.8.1931

Workers go on strike at the Hoover dam.

1935

9.30.1935

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

1936

3.1.1936

The Hoover Dam is completed.

10.9.1936

Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.

10.26.1936

The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.

1947

4.30.1947

In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.