No place will make you utter "Dam! That's interesting!" more than the Hoover Dam Museum in Nevada. If you go there, you'll learn that the original name of the Hoover Dam was what?

From the museum's website: "The dam was originally planned for Boulder Canyon and the early 1920s blueprints were labeled Boulder Dam. Although the site for the dam was moved to Black Canyon, the dam continued to be called Boulder Dam until 1931 when Secretary of the Interior, Ray Wilbur pronounced the dam would be called Hoover Dam."

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