Free, small museum inside the historic Boulder Dam Hotel. Very educational and informative about the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Writing Prompts
Why was the Hoover Dam a more challenging engineering project than other dams at the time?
What were some of the risks to the workers who built the Hoover Dam?
Why was the Hoover Dam built?
A pebble falling from the height of the dam can crack a workers head so they began to make their own hard hats using two baseball caps dipped in tar and allowed to harden.
The biggest flood the Hoover Dam has seen was 7 feet below the top of the dam in the year 1983.