New Mexico Entertainment

Roswell was a watering place for the Pecos Valley cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s.  It was incorporated in 1891 and is the seat of Chaves County, named for Colonel J. Francisco Chaves, a Civil War soldier and delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Territory of New Mexico.  In the 1930s, Dr. Robert Goddard (for whom Roswell's Robert Goddard Senior High School was named after) conducted experiments in liquid fuel rocket flights here.

Population: 50,000             Elevation: 3,612

April 2000

Photograph 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Roswell Photographs Page