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West of this location stood the now abandoned community of Blackdom.

When 19th Century cowboys attempted to measure these lakes by tying lariats together, they found no bottom and declared the lakes...

From 1942 to 1946 a U.S. Army camp for German prisoners of war operated near Orchard Park.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a federal program established during the Great Depression to provide jobs for the nation’s...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was established to provide employment to the nation's young men during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

In order to avoid the high toll charged for each animal on the Raton Pass branch of the Goodnight-Loving Trail, Charles Goodnight blazed...

This famous old cattle trail, running 2000 miles from Texas to Wyoming, was blazed in 1866 by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving.

Nomadic Indians and countless buffalo herds dominated this vast plain when the Vásquez de Coronado expedition explored it in 1541.

During World War II, a branch of the Roswell prisoner of war camp was established on a site less than a mile from here.

Completed in 1926, the Rio Felix Bridge was one of the most important structures in New Mexico’s highway system.

Population –50,000 Elevation –3612 ft. Roswell was a watering place for the Pecos Valley cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s.

Roswell was a watering place for the Pecos Valley cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s.

Roswell was a watering place for the Pecos Valley cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s.

This plaza incorporates two of downtown Roswell's most historic buildings.

Sallie was 19 when she arrived from Texas at her Uncle John Chisum’s Jinglebob Land and Livestock Company ranch south of Roswell.

Roswell Army Air Field was established in 1941 and renamed after New Mexico native Brig. Gen. Kenneth Walker in 1948.