Grand Coulee Dam
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The finished Grand Coulee Dam with the gates open, before the addition of the third powerhouse.
Courtesy of The Northwest Room at the Spokane Public Library.
This file appears in: Grand Coulee Dam: Electricity for Jackrabbits
Grand Coulee Dam: Electricity for Jackrabbits
Larger than all of the Pyramids of Giza put together, this mammoth concrete structure began as a dream in a small arid Central Washington farm town. In 1918, Billy Clapp, a lawyer in Ephrata,…