On this day in 1930, telephone operator Louise Gipe, a heroine of the St. Francis Dam disaster, attempted suicide.

The public has the opportunity to walk the site of the March 12, 1928, St. Francis Dam disaster. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is offering its ...

One of the deadliest disasters in American history, the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928 left devastation in its wake. Today, only fragments remain—but they still echo the scale of the tragedy.

After the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, engineers applied lessons learned to expansive dam projects in the American West. Beginning in the 1930s, large dams were built on important watersheds ...