Coolidge Dam (Geographic Keyword)
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Archaeological Consulting Services was contracted to perform a Class III cultural resource survey of 235 acres around Coolidge Dam. This report provides information about the environment, the study methodology, previous regional research, Coolidge Dam construction history, and survey results. The only cultural resources located by the survey and/or known prior to the survey, date to the historic period. These include the dam itself and remains of the construction and maintenance facilities...
HAER No. AZ-7, Coolidge Dam, Pinal County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data, and Reduced Copies of Drawings (1986)
Coolidge Dam was authorized in 1924 and was completed in 1928. It was built by the U.S. Indian Service. Today Coolidge Dam supplies water from the Gila River to the Gila River Indian Community and to non-Indian growers as well. This report satisfies Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) standards as established by the National Park Service. A copy of this report, along with a complete set of archival negatives and photographs, has been deposited in the HAER collection at the Library of...
Historic American Engineering Record: Coolidge Dam, Pinal County, Arizona (1986)
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-7 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Coolidge Dam, which impounds water along the Gila River to form the San Carlos Reservoir 30 miles southwest of Globe, Arizona. It also contains a summary of Gila River water usage and conflicts over water access, from native Pima and Maricopa water use to Historic era, multi-community uses. The report contains a narrative...
Water Development on the Gila River: The Construction of Coolidge Dam (1987)
Because settlement and sustained growth in the arid West has been impossible without an adequate water supply, the history of the region requires an understanding of water resource development. In central Arizona, water development on the Gila River, the state's principle river, was attained only after a long period of conflict. Historically, the Gila River had been used by the Pima Indian community. This tribe had successfully dwelled for many centuries as an agrarian society by diverting the...