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Home / Arts / Architecture / History / Building Types / Dams
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- Building The Ultimate Dam - Donald Jackson of the History Department, Lafayette College, describes his book on John S. Eastwood and the control of water in the American West. Excerpts and illustrations.
ww2.lafayette.edu/~jacksond/ultdam.html
- Gibraltar Dam - Historical overview of this dam built in 1920 and designed by Joseph Barlow Lippincott (1864-1942) in the Pacific Southwest, from the United States Department of Agriculture.
www.r5.fs.fed.us/heritage/065.HTM
- Grand Coulee Dam - The dam on the Columbia river is the largest concrete structure in the United States. Charles Hubbard provides history, photographs and bibliography.
users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam
- Hoover Dam: Taming the Colorado River - Sunset Cities gives construction facts and figures, history, photographs and visitor information on this giant dam built in the US Depression years.
www.sunsetcities.com/hoover-dam.html
- Parker Dam - Guide from Desert USA to the deepest dam in the world, built in the 1930s on the Colorado River. Includes history, photographs and visitor information.
www.desertusa.com/colorado/parker_dam/du_parkerdam.html
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