| Robert P. McCulloch created Lake Havasu, by | | | | Lake Havasu. In the early 1800's mountain men |
| some small miracle, to build a city in a | | | | made their way along that section of the |
| small piece of Arizona desert. The miracle is | | | | river. They made their livelihood at trapping |
| that he was able to do this without any major | | | | beavers in the streams and rivers in the |
| highway winding its way through the would-be | | | | area. However, the mountain men were forced |
| city. There was no road connecting this area | | | | out of the area in by the 1830's by the |
| to the rest of the country. Not only was he | | | | Mohave Indians. |
| able to do this but also he was also able to | | | | |
| transport the historic London Bridge almost | | | | The Spanish also found their way in the Lake |
| halfway around the globe and reconstruct it | | | | Havasu region by mining up and down the river |
| in the Arizona desert. | | | | in the nearby mountains. Other prospectors |
| | | | followed them. Mining camps began to spring |
| McCulloch found the site for Lake Havasu when | | | | up all along the rivers in this area. These |
| he flew over the area in search of a location | | | | miners discouraged people from settling the |
| to test the outboard boat motors he | | | | area saying that the terrain was too rough |
| manufactured. Lake Havasu was created with | | | | and uninhabitable. |
| the construction of Parker Dam in the 1930's. | | | | |
| Until this dam was built, what is now Lake | | | | With the construction of Parker's Dam in the |
| Havasu was a remote section of the Colorado | | | | mid 1930's we see the appearance of small |
| River that wound its way through the rough | | | | villages and communities in the Lake Havasu |
| terrain. | | | | area. However, floods that caused the |
| | | | shoreline to widen destroyed most if not all |
| However, McCulloch was not the first person | | | | villages and communities. |
| to ever venture into this area that is now | | | | |