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Elephant Butte Dam
Completed in July 1916
A visit to Elephant Butte isn’t complete without a tour of Dam Site Recreation Area. The Elephant Butte Dam is a marvel of engineering and quite beautiful. The Dam Site Recreation Area, part of Elephant Butte Lake State Park, includes historical buildings that date back to the construction of the dam that began in 1911 The United States Congress authorized construction of the dam on February 25, 1905 and it began in 1911. It began filling in 1915 and was completed in July of 1916. Thousands showed up for the big dedication ceremony held on October 19, 1916.
The Dam Site Recreation Area restaurant, cabins, fish hatchery, roads, boat launch and landscaping were constructed by two CCC camps at Elephant Butte from 1934-1941, making the Dam Site Recreation Area one of the largest CCC projects in the State of New Mexico.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary, of the New Deal legislation a 6′ bronze statue of a CCC worker was unveiled at the Dam Site Recreation Area on Saturday, October 18, 2008.
