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In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.

Historical image related to In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam. from April 30, 1947

Nevada

U.S. state

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western United States. Nevada is also sometimes placed in the Mountain West and Southwestern United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east.…
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Hoover Dam

Dam in Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona, US

The 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.…
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