Hemenway

Mrs. Hemenway is a citizen whom Boston delights to honor.

Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894

Daryl Peveto/LUCEO for The Wall Street Journal Lake Mead Marina Manager Gail Kaiser talks about how the marina, opened by her family in 1957 on Las Vegas Harbor, was forced to relocate to Hemenway Harbor in 2002 because of lower water levels.

Shallow Gains for Lake Mead 2011

The restaurant was right on this dock so we had fabulous views of the Hemenway Harbor Marina.

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The restaurant was right on this dock so we had fabulous views of the Hemenway Harbor Marina.

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Near the crest of Hemenway Wash, at the future site of Boulder City, a wag had erected a placard reading “City Limits of Los Angeles.”

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

On March 16,1931, a team of government surveyors assembled by a granite outcropping at the crown of Hemenway Wash and drove a whitewashed stake into the ground.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

The flight of laid-off workers to Las Vegas left a hardy core of fewer than two hundred strikers hunkered down on the reservation as of Monday night, August 10—about half at River Camp and the rest in a tent settlement atop Hemenway Wash, about a mile outside the still skeletal Boulder City.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Reclamation commissioner Elwood Mead advocated simply running the squatters off, lest Hemenway Wash become an unhygienic hive of vagrancy and crime.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Until equipment could be driven by road down to the riverbank, men and machines had to be floated to the location by barges secured to cables played out from the shoreline of Hemenway Wash two miles upstream.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

The construction of Boulder City started in April 1931 with the erection of a giant water tank—to this day the outstanding municipal landmark—on a rocky outcropping atop Hemenway Wash.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010