Arizona built a whole town to build Roosevelt Dam, and then let the dam drown it. Construction began in 1903 in a remote Salt River canyon with no road leading in. Before the dam could be built, workers had to create a way to reach it. San Carlos and other Western Apache crews helped build more than 100 miles of road into the canyon, including what became the Apache Trail. More than 3,000 people worked on the project, including Apache, Black, Mexican and Anglo workers, along with European stonecutters and masons. They lived in several camps, including the town of Roosevelt. And Roosevelt was a real town. It had houses, stores, a dining hall, running water, sewer lines, telephones and electricity, all sitting in a remote Arizona canyon in the early 1900s. There was just one problem. The town was built below the future waterline. Everyone knew it would eventually be flooded, and the plan was to move the buildings before the reservoir filled. But in 1908, the water rose faster tha...