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Alamogordo

U.S. 285, Artesia, NM, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 32° 43' 20.0388", -104° 23' 47.0112"
  New Mexico NM State Historical Marker
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In 1898, brothers Charles B. and John A. Eddy, promoters of the el Paso and Northeastern Railroad, laid out and platted a town here that served as a junction with a railroad line to the lumbering operation in the Sacramento Mountains. July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was exploded 60 miles from here.



Last updated: 10/16/2009 11:43:41
   
     
 
Alamogordo Historical Marker Location Map, Artesia, New Mexico