Tahoe City Dam Turns 100 Years Old
“World War I, Prohibition and Franklin Roosevelt’s first election are just a few historic events that happened after one of Lake Tahoe’s most important features was built a century ago.
“Completed in fall 1913, the Lake Tahoe Dam in Tahoe City was part of the Newlands Project designed to provide irrigation water from the Truckee and Carson rivers for cropland in the Lahontan Valley.”
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