e/Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam

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has gloss	eng: The Ashfork Bainbridge Steel Dam, the first large steel dam in the world, and one of only three ever built in the United States, was constructed in 1898 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) to supply water for railway operations near Ash Fork, Arizona. It is named for the town of Ash Fork, and for Francis H. Bainbridge, a civil engineer and graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), who was an engineer for ATSF. The dam has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. consumed a prodigious amount of water. The usual approach was to construct a dam to retain surface water, or to drill a series of wells, and store the water in a water tank. Railroad communities often grew up around these reservoirs or water stops. Ash Fork had been such a town from when the ATSF first arrived some years earlier although it had been a way point for stagecoach lines previously.
lexicalization	eng: Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam
instance of	(noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea dike, dyke, dam

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geo loc	geographic location 35.22487 -112.41753
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