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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XVK_new-mexico-navy-veterans-monument-a-war-memorial_Roswell-NM.html
Dedicated
February 24, 1968
To the Men and Women
Of New Mexico Who
Serve With The
United States Navy
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E9I_justice-in-the-wild-west_Roswell-NM.html
Before the construction of the elegant courthouse that stands here today, a smaller courthouse constructed in 1890 was home to Roswell's judicial system.In 1889, prior to construction, Captain Joseph C. Lea, Charles Eddy, and Pat Garrett (the famo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7O_waldrop-park_Roswell-NM.html
This site is named for Victor H. Waldrop and stewardship for is shared by the New Mexico Department of Transportation and local bird enthusiasts. Wind blown-sand deposited at the base of Mescalero Ridge forms a 60 mile expanse of open dunes and st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7N_goodnight-loving-trail_Roswell-NM.html
This famous old cattle trail, running 2000 miles from Texas to Wyoming, was blazed in 1866 by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving. In New Mexico, the trail followed the Pecos River north to Fort Sumner, where the government needed beef to feed the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7L_bottomless-lakes-state-park_Roswell-NM.html
When 19th Century cowboys attempted to measure these lakes by tying lariats together, they found no bottom and declared the lakes "bottomless." Today we know these sinkholes, formed by collapsed salt and gypsum deposits, are 17 to 90 feet in depth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7K_louise-massey-mabie-1902-1983_Roswell-NM.html
This is a two sided markerSide A:One of the first female radio stars in the 1930s, Louise's career spanned from 1918-1950. Her recordings in English and Spanish sold millions of copies. Heading the Roswell-based group, Louise Massey and the Wester…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7J_roswell_Roswell-NM.html
Roswell was a watering place for the Pecos Valley cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s. It was incorporated in 1891 and is seat of Chaves County, named for Col. J. Francisco Chaves, Civil War Soldier and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Terr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7I_patrick-floyd-jarvis-garrett_Roswell-NM.html
In the frontier west, Pat Garrett has to be considered as one of the most famous and effective of legendary law officers. Six feet, five inches tall, he was an imposing and implacable foe of western criminals. An honest and honorable lawman, Garre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E7H_john-simpson-chisum_Roswell-NM.html
John S. Chisum, a western icon, is generally recognized as the early West's most prominent cattleman.
In the mid-1870s, Chisum was the largest cattle producer in the nation, with as many as 80,000 longhorn steers in his herd. Beginning as a you…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DPY_the-iron-cross_Roswell-NM.html
During World War II a prisoner of war camp was established by the War Department near Orchard Park southeast of Roswell, which housed some 4800 German prisoners of war. On January 1, 1943, the first prisoners arrived here from the "Afrikacorps", R…