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Welcome To The
Boulder City /Hoover Dam Museum
Located In The Historic Boulder Dam Hotel
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Did You or Your Ancestors Help Build Hoover Dam and Boulder City?
Judy Irons at work in the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association archives. For four years historian Judy Irons has been diligently compiling names of original Hoover Dam construction workers and their families who came with them to Southern Nevada.
The Depression of the 1930s was one of the greatest periods of social disruption in U. S. history. Millions were thrown into poverty when the economy failed, with no resources like unemployment insurance or welfare to get them through. The Boulder Canyon Project was one of the few places in the country where men could find jobs, and thousands of workers migrated to southern Nevada hoping to find work and keep their families together. It's the names of these pioneers Irons is tracking down and recording. Irons has searched the records of museums, churches, and social organizations throughout the West; she's scanned thousands of newspapers and books; and has conducted correspondence with former dam workers and their descendents. The result of Judy's work will be a definitive Genealogical Reference honoring Boulder Canyon Project pioneers. Families will be able to use this reference to trace their ancestors who migrated to Southern Nevada, while social researchers will find it useful for tracing the mass migrations brought on by the hardships of the Great Depression, Information in the reference includes not only names of workers, their wives, children, and extended family members, but the job they worked if that can be determined, their relation to others noted in the reference, and where the information came from.
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Here are some sample entries from Judy Irons' book:
DALLON, Frank S.
Bureau of Reclamation rodman
USBR1: 1931 & Photo 9, 1932, 1934, 1936
DASTRUP, Mary Lee
daughter of Noel H. & Kate Dastrup
BCM1: MS77
JI1: Lenon Bezzant 4/12/2002
HAAS, Paula (nee' Leca)
wife of Wales A. Haas
AML7
BCM1: MS64
N11: May 14,1932
HAAS, Wales A., Dr.
Six Companies, Inc. Chief Surgeon [died March 6, 1933]
AML3
B7, B8
BCM1: MS64
PE6: May-June 1985
USBR1: 1933 p312
The abbreviations refer to the source of the information. For instance, AML3 = American Legion Post 31 records; BCM1 = Boulder City Museum and Historical Association archives; JI1 = Judy Irons correspondence.
You can help make sure that you or your ancestors are noted in this reference book by contacting Judy Irons through her e-mail judyirons@msn.com or by snail mail at 9116 E. Sprague Avenue #182, Spokane Valley, WA 99206.
Requirements for inclusion in the reference are that those noted lived and/or worked in Boulder City or at Hoover Dam any time from 1931 through June of 1936 when Six Companies, Inc. handed the project over to the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. "Work" would include: Hoover Dam itself, construction of Boulder City, Boulder City businesses, and work on any project which contributed to construction of the dam, including roads and railroads in the area, stringing power and telephone cables, surveying, etc.
Judy asks that those contacting her try to provide as much information as they can:
- Your or your ancestor's name and the names of immediate family members who lived and/or worked in Boulder City or on Hoover Dam in 1931 - 36. The particular job you or your ancestor had, and with what company, contractor, subcontractor, or business.
- Extended family members [aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents] who lived in Boulder City or worked on the dam.
- Others who came to Southern Nevada with you or your ancestor from their home state.
- Any names you can recall of Boulder City neighbors and friends, or social acquaintances from churches, clubs, organizations, businesses, and schools. Also the names of co-workers at Hoover Dam.
Thanks for helping preserve the names of Boulder Canyon Project pioneers.
Boulder City Museum and Historical Association
Located in the Boulder Dam Hotel
1305 Arizona Street, Boulder City, Nevada 89005
P.O. Box 60516, Boulder City, Nevada 89006-0516
Phone: (702) 294-1988 | Fax: (702) 294-4380
E-mail: info@bcmha.org
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