St. Thomas, Nevada
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St. Thomas, Nevada is a ghost town in Clark County, Nevada, United States, near where the Muddy River flows into the Colorado River. St. Thomas was purchased by the US federal government and abandoned
Ruins exposed after being submerged under Lake Mead for many years, February 2007
A salvage crew floats by an abandoned building as Lake Mead fills with water, June 1938
St Thomas building foundation, February 2009
Hoover Dam
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The Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the boundary between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Gr
St. Thomas, Nevada
…being deserted by most of its first settlers, new LDS settlers came to the St. Thomas and other places in the area in the 1880s. The construction of Hoover Dam and the resulting rise in the waters of the Colorado River forced the abandonment of the town, with the last resident, Hugh Lord, leaving June 11, 1938…
2017 Aerial view Hoover Dam 4774
River view of the future dam site, c. 1904
Sketch of the proposed dam site and reservoir, c. 1921
Workers on a "Jumbo Rig"; used for drilling the Hoover Dam's tunnels