William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster” by Norris Hundley Jr. and Donald C. Jackson. Escaping unhappy family circumstances, at 15 he joined the British Merchant Navy and sailed for ...

Explore the 1928 dam collapse, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los ...

In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...