Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River


  • Address: WA 155
  • Type: Dam
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1934/08/03 Franklin D Roosevelt US President President Franklin Roosevelt visits Grand Coulee Dam work area.
1935/12/06 Governor Clarence Martin presides over the ceremonial first concrete pour at Grand Coulee Dam.
1937/09/00 Bureau of Reclamation says that an average of nearly $800,000 a month was paid this spring to workers employed by the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Company, Grand Coulee contractors.
1937/10/02 Franklin D Roosevelt US President President Franklin D Roosevelt visits to the Grand Coulee Dam construction site.
1942/06/01 Grand Coulee Dam begins operations.
1951/05/07 Ceremony for the first water delivery from the Grand Coulee Dam for the irrigation of the Columbia Basin.

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Particulars for Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia River:
Sight Category Building
Structure Type Dam
Historic Use Energy facility
Area of Significance Engineering
Category for Historic Use Government
Power Hydroelectric Facility
Sight Category Structure




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