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Theodore Roosevelt Dam is a dam on the Salt River located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. The dam is 357 feet (109 m) high and forms Theodore Roosevelt Lake as it impounds the Salt River. Built between 1905 and 1911, the dam was renovated and expanded in 1989–1996. The dam is named after President Theodore Roosevelt.
The Battle of Salt River Canyon, the Battle of Skeleton Cave, [2] or the Skeleton Cave Massacre was the first principal engagement during the 1872 Tonto Basin Campaign under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Crook. It was part of the Yavapai War from 1871 to 1875 against the Yavapai people, a Native American tribe in Arizona.
In 1946, a man was struck by the train as he was working on scaffolding on the ride. He suffered skull, leg, and arm fractures, as well as internal injuries, and died at a Salt Lake hospital on September 1, 1946. On June 12, 1989, a 13-year-old girl stood up and fell 35 feet (11 m) to her death. She was pronounced dead at the scene. [198]
The cave is within the Salt River Canyon Wilderness and is located on the northern wall of the Salt River Canyon near the Horse Mesa Dam. It was the site of the 1872 massacre of the Yavapai people in the Battle of Salt River Canyon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [2]
Heath White, 54, founder and owner of Zen Tubing, one of the biggest names in outdoor recreation in Western North Carolina, died Dec. 11.
A 10-year-old tubing on the Tennessee River died after part of a boat hit her over the Fourth of July weekend, officials said. The girl reportedly was “on a tube being pulled by a pontoon boat ...
Salt River passing below the Central Avenue Bridge in southern Phoenix after winter rains, March 2010. As the Salt River passes through its reservoirs, it flows by the Four Peaks Wilderness, near the Four Peaks. A few miles downstream of Stewart Mountain Dam, the last of the four Salt River Project dams, the Verde River joins the Salt from the ...
A 24-year-old woman with a “special soul” was tubing on an Oregon river when she collided with another boat and died, deputies and loved ones said. ... Kaileigh Seidel’s sudden death has ...