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About 14 miles west of Roswell along U.S. Route 380, then 2 miles south on a private ranch road 33°21′06″N 104°51′08″W / 33.351667°N 104.852222°W / 33.351667; -104.852222 ( Diamond
The Downtown Roswell Historic District is a 145 acres (59 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Roughly bounded by 8th St., Richardson Ave., Albuquerque St. and Missouri Ave. in Roswell, the district included 298 contributing buildings .
Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado, in the eastern part of the state. A largely agricultural community, closely bordering Texas, it is noted for its role in early rock music history and for nearby Cannon Air Force Base, current home to the 27th Special Operations Wing which is also known as "The Steadfast Line". [8]
Roswell (/ ˈ r ɒ z w ɛ l /) is a city in and the seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, United States. [6] The population was 48,422 at the 2020 census, [3] making it the fifth-most populous city in New Mexico.
roswell-nm.gov /1259 /Roswell-Museum The Roswell Museum (formerly Roswell Museum and Art Center ) was founded in 1936 and is located in Roswell, New Mexico , United States. [ 1 ] The museum features exhibits about the art and history of the American Southwest , as well as the Robert H. Goddard laboratory.
The Patrick Floyd Garrett House, in Chaves County, New Mexico near Roswell, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]It is an adobe homestead house from the early 1880s, in what has been termed New Mexico vernacular architecture, with additional significance as the home of Pat Garrett, who killed Billy the Kid in 1881.
New Mexico: A History (U of Oklahoma Press, 2013) 384pp; Simmons, Marc. New Mexico: An Interpretive History, 221 pages, University of New Mexico Press 1988, ISBN 0-8263-1110-5, short introduction; Szasz, Ferenc M. Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth (2nd ed. 2006). Weber, David J. “The Spanish Borderlands, Historiography Redux.”
The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). [1] The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone tools were found alongside the remains of Columbian mammoths in 1929. [2]