Workers Arrive for Jobs
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So many workers arrived to find jobs on the dam that housing and infrastructure was an immediate issue for the construction company. They built boarding houses and mess hall for the single laborers that coule serve the needs of throusands of laborers a day.
Courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation.
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Mason City
In the depths of America's Great Depression, news of a huge construction project in Washington State brought a flood of unemployed men seeking jobs. The "mushroom towns of the Grand Coulee" sprouted to accommodate them. Workers arrived…