Roswell
Chaves County Courthouse
Roswell is a city in Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, USA. It is the county seat of Chaves County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population was 45,199, making it New Mexico's fifth largest city. It is a center for irrigation farming, dairying, ranching, manufacturing, distribution, and petroleum production. It is also the home of New Mexico Military Institute, founded in 1891. Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a few miles northeast of the city on the Pecos River.
Ten Commandments on the Courthouse
grounds
(What happened to separation of Church and State?)
In the 1930s, Roswell was a site for much of Robert Goddard's early rocketry
work. It is also the birthplace of actress Demi Moore, musician John Denver, and
Hall of Fame jockey Mike E. Smith. A Golf Hall of Famer, Nancy Lopez, was raised
in Roswell (though born in California). A Hall of Famer astronaut, sixth man on
the moon Edgar Mitchell, went to school in Roswell. Roger Staubach (later of the
Dallas Cowboys) played football at New Mexico Military Institute, and Lewis Lloyd (later of the Houston
Rockets) played basketball there. The professional baseball record for home runs
in a season, 72, was set in 1954 by Joe Bauman of the Roswell Rockets, who took
up permanent residence there (the record was broken in 2001 by Barry Bonds).
UFO Museum
Roswell is most popularly known for having its name attached to what is now
called the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, even though the actual crash site was
about 75 miles from Roswell, and in fact closer to the town of Corona. However,
the investigation and debris recovery was handled by the local Roswell Army Air
Field.
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Roswell Pioneer Plaza
John Simpson Chisum
typical Roswell residence
Alien Snowcones
or fast food at the Disk shaped McDonalds
Calico Cow Quilt Shop
make an Alien Quilt
or Kokopelli Quilt
