William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster” by Norris Hundley Jr. and Donald C. Jackson. Escaping unhappy family circumstances, at 15 he joined the British Merchant Navy and sailed for ...

It ended Mulholland’s storied career and informed the construction of the Hoover Dam, which was completed in 1936. According to David S. Peebles, acting heritage manager for the Angeles National ...

In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...

A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.