St. Francis Dam
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st-francis-dam-178-4739576
title:
St. Francis Dam
text:
The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood, in what is considered to have been one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California history. The dam was built to serve th
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Former dam in Los Angeles County, California, US
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam
date created:
2004-01-09T03:01:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T14:19:21Z
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