Giant blocks of granite — like the ones used to build the 1888 Texas Capitol — formed the dam. More from the archives: From the Statesman archives: Austin started big as a national ...

THEcomplete failure of the Austin dam, with its resultant loss of property and human life, has naturally drawn attention to the early history of this structure. The dam was constructed in the year ...

Those were the headlines for April 8, 1900 — as reimagined "in the style of the day" for the American-Statesman on April 8, 1976 — when the Austin Dam, which supplied the city with almost all its ...

Giant blocks of granite — like the ones used to build the 1888 Texas Capitol — formed the dam. Not just a practical supplier of hydroelectric power and water for the city, the Austin Dam ...