The last and first deaths of the Hoover Dam

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As crazy as it may seem.... the first and last deaths were a father and son pair.

Surveyor J.G. Tierney drowned in the Colorado River on December 20, 1922, marking the project’s first death. Eerily, the last recorded death was his son, Patrick Tierney, who died exactly 13 years later on December 20, 1935, during the dam’s final construction phase.

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