ROSWELL
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US Hwy 70, 285, 380, NM Hwy 256
US Hwy 70 leads to High Lonesome, 20 miles northeast, and joins up with US Hwy 380 to lead to Riverside, 29 miles west.
US Hwy 285 leads to Mesa, 36 miles north, passing NM Hwy 20, 31 miles north, and Artesia, 31 miles south, passing NM Hwy 13, 16 miles south.
US Hwy 380 leads to Caprock, 44 miles east, passing NM Hwy 409, 2 miles east, and NM Hwy 172, 35 miles east. US Hwy 380 joins with US Hwy 70 to lead to Riverside, 29 miles west.
NM Hwy 256 leads to Dexter, 8 miles southeast.
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
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Roswell Test Facility
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Roswell Pioneer Plaza: This plaza incorporates two of downtown Roswell's most historic buildings. This former Conoco service station (now a visitor's center) was built in the 1920's. It is one of the few remaining architecturally intact gasoline stations from this early period of New Mexico's transportation history.
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Roswell Pioneer Plaza: East of the former Conoco service station, shown above, is the Chaves County Courthouse, built in 1911. It is one of the best surviving examples of courthouses built in the Beaux Arts Revival "monumental civic style" architecture.
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Cannon located near the Chaves County Courthouse, shown above
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