by Jennifer Cutraro
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Engineering Change
A brief history of the creation and growth of the Army Corps 0
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago
Today, it's almost impossible to say "Army Corps of Engineers" without also saying "Hurricane Katrina" and "levee failure," or "Yazoo Pump" and "boondoggle." But the corps' original mandate made no mention of hurricane and flood protection, or even of the Mississippi River.
An Army Corps survey crew in 1916.
Photo: history.nasa.gov
In 1802, Congress established the Army Corps of Engineers as the nation's design and construction crew. The country was barely a quarter-century past the Revolutionary War -- where the first iteration of the… Read More
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