HOOVER DAM/ TVA

HOOVER DAM

• Built Six Companies Inc.
• The biggest company in this conglomeration was from California
• It was done under TVA supervision
• Actually not in the Tennessee Valley, but in Colorado

WHO BUILT IT?

• Built by Six Companies Inc.
• Biggest contractor from California
• Under TVA supervision
• The Bureau of Reclamation has overall responsibility
• http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/History/essays/workforc.html

TENNESSEE VALLEY

ROLAND WANK

• Modernist architect
• Recruited by TVA in 1933
• Simplified Norris Dam and settlement
• He opened the Norris Dam for the public
• He made the town of Fontana out of prefab materials

TVA

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• Part of Roosevelt's New Deal
• Henry Ford wanted the rights of ownership of Wilson Dam, Ala.
• This lead to FDR signing the TVA Act.

JAMES AGEE

• Poet
• Wrote a 1936 Fortune Magazine Article
• TVA Walk in the Valley
• Description of TVA headquarters