Hoover Dam
The Story of Hoover Dam - Essays
Work Force
The following information was taken from a newspaper article in the '30's. It shows the breakout, by state, of where the people who built the dam came from.
State |
Number of Men | State |
Number of Men | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 243 | Nebraska | 157 | |
| Arizona | 643 | Nevada | 5522 | |
| Arkansas | 191 | New Jersey | 104 | |
| California | 5055 | New Mexico | 109 | |
| Connecticut | 467 | New York | 221 | |
| Colorado | 467 | New Hampshire | 14 | |
| Delaware | 1 | North Carolina | 120 | |
| Florida | 66 | Ohio | 260 | |
| Georgia | 115 | Oklahoma | 581 | |
| Idaho | 599 | Oregon | 273 | |
| Illinois | 487 | Pennsylvania | 238 | |
| Indiana | 159 | Rhode Island | 8 | |
| Iowa | 181 | South Carolina | 29 | |
| Kansas | 327 | South Dakota | 58 | |
| Kentucky | 103 | Tennessee | 121 | |
| Louisiana | 85 | Texas | 604 | |
| Maine | 18 | Utah | 1165 | |
| Maryland | 66 | Virginia | 44 | |
| Massachusetts | 114 | Vermont | 6 | |
| Missouri | 548 | Washington | 642 | |
| Michigan | 251 | West Virginia | 73 | |
| Minnesota | 208 | Wisconsin | 171 | |
| Mississippi | 50 | Wyoming | 161 | |
| Montana | 340 | Foreign workers | 116 |
Total = over 21,000
