December 9, 2011

When construction began on Norfork Dam in Baxter County in 1941, approximately 4,000 observers arrived in the area to view the initial blast, shown here, to remove a cliff. Because the local media had hyped the blast, many of the witnesses were disappointed when only a small part of the cliff crumbled.

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