This regional pride has resulted in Roswell receiving the All-America City Award multiple times, in 1978–79 and 2002. ==History== The first non-indigenous settlers of the area around Roswell were a group of pioneers from Missouri, who attempted to start a settlement southwest of what is now Roswell in 1865, but were forced to abandon the site because of a lack of water.
Smith, a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, and his partner, Aaron Wilburn, constructed two adobe buildings in 1869 that began what is now Roswell.
In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.
In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.
He called the town Roswell, after his father's first name. In 1877, Captain Joseph Calloway Lea and his family bought out Smith and Wilburn's claim and became the owners of most of the land of Roswell and the area surrounding it.
A major aquifer was discovered when merchant Nathan Jaffa had a well drilled in his back yard on Richardson Avenue in 1890, resulting in the area's first major growth and development spurt.
It is home of the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), founded in 1891.
The growth continued when the Pecos Valley Railroad arrived in 1892. During World War II, a prisoner-of-war camp was located in nearby Orchard Park.
In the 1930s, Roswell was a site for much of Robert H.
The park displays a piece of the Berlin Wall, presented to the city of Roswell by the German Air Force. Roswell was a location of military importance from 1941 to 1967.
After the closure of the base, Roswell capitalized on its pleasant climate and reinvented itself as a retirement community. Roswell has benefited from interest in the alleged UFO incident of 1947.
It was the report of an object that crashed in the general vicinity in June or July 1947, allegedly an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its alien occupants.
The park displays a piece of the Berlin Wall, presented to the city of Roswell by the German Air Force. Roswell was a location of military importance from 1941 to 1967.
In 1967, the Walker Air Force Base was decommissioned.
Since the late 1970s, the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and of a conspiracy theory regarding a classified program named "Project Mogul".
This regional pride has resulted in Roswell receiving the All-America City Award multiple times, in 1978–79 and 2002. ==History== The first non-indigenous settlers of the area around Roswell were a group of pioneers from Missouri, who attempted to start a settlement southwest of what is now Roswell in 1865, but were forced to abandon the site because of a lack of water.
In the 1980s, a crew cleaning the river bed cleared off the concrete and revealed the outline once more.
On November 11, 1996, the park was renamed POW/MIA Park.
This regional pride has resulted in Roswell receiving the All-America City Award multiple times, in 1978–79 and 2002. ==History== The first non-indigenous settlers of the area around Roswell were a group of pioneers from Missouri, who attempted to start a settlement southwest of what is now Roswell in 1865, but were forced to abandon the site because of a lack of water.
As of the 2010 census it had a population of 48,411, making it the fifth-largest city in New Mexico.
In recent times, the business community has deliberately sought out tourists interested in UFOs, science fiction, and aliens. Roswell hosted the record-breaking skydive by Felix Baumgartner on October 14, 2012. ==Geography== Roswell is located in the High Great Plains of southeastern New Mexico, approximately west of the Pecos River and some east of highlands that rise to the Sierra Blanca range.
All text is taken from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .
Page generated on 2021-08-05