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Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam, formerly called Boulder Dam, dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, at the Arizona-Nevada border, U.S. Constructed between 1930 and 1936, it is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States. It impounds Lake Mead, which extends for 115 miles (185 km) upstream and is one of the largest manmade lakes in the world.
U.S. 93 is the main route between Las Vegas and Phoenix. Although the massive bypass project has not had a death up until now, the original project to build Hoover Dam as the United States was trying to recover from the Great Depression in the 1930s killed 112 people during construction. The first worker who died on the dam drowned in the Colorado River.