In 1902 the U.S. Congress passed the Reclamation Act and within a year it was decided to build a dam on the Colorado River to help agriculture in the Yuma area and southeastern California. Up until this point, no dams existed on the Colorado, and steamboats would use the river to travel from the Gulf of California to Nevada.

Construction of the Laguna Dam began in 1905, and with it's completion in 1909, the age of steamboats on the Colorado River was at an end. In the century plus since the Laguna Dam was built, 14 more dams have joined it on the river.

In this video we travel to the Laguna Dam, explore the dam, see it's infamous swastika bridge, and talk about it's place in the river's history.

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