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In 1974 the dam and power plant were listed on the National Register Of Historic Places . Walcott Park, close to the dam, is a popular summertime picnic area. Headquarters for the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge are also adjacent to the dam. HISTORY The Minidoka dam was the first Reclamation Service project in Idaho. Construction began on the Dam in 1904. By 1906 most of the dam's canals and laterals were finished. By 1909, Minidoka Dam's power plant, the first federal power plant in the northwest, was completed. By its completion, the total cost of the dam was $5.8 million, which exceeded estimates. The Minidoka dam was the first of five dams built in the Minidoka project, a project proposed to bring water into the southeastern areas of Idaho near the cities of Rupert and Burley, Idaho . The project was successful, as what was once an uninhabited sagebrush desert is now bountiful farmland. STATISTICS
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