Roswell (New Mexico)

Chaves County

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Roswell is a city in the southeast of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its territory covers an area of ​​75 square kilometers. With 45 293 inhabitants ( 2000) Roswell is the fifth largest city of New Mexico. The city is located in Chaves County, the county seat ( county seat ) it is.

In the vicinity of Roswell is the KBIM transmission tower, a 569 -meter-high radio mast for FM and TV.

History

Approximately 24 kilometers southwest of the present city of Roswell was founded in 1865 by a group of pioneers from Missouri, the first non- Indian settlement in the area. But you had to be abandoned due to lack of water supply. A businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, Van C. Smith, and his partner, Aaron Wilburn, built in 1869, two mud houses that were the origin of today's Roswell. The two buildings were used as a general store, a post office and as sleeping quarters for paying passengers.

In the 1930s there worked the American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard and scientists.

In the summer of 1947 a UFO to be crashed near Roswell. On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the so-called Roswell incident, the Amazing Roswell UFO Festival was held in the city from the 5th to 8th July 2007.

On October 14, 2012 took place in Roswell Red Bull Stratos. In this experiment, the Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner jumped from a height of 39 km from a hanging under a helium balloon capsule to Earth. Here he broke several world records.

Population Development

¹ 1980-2000: census results; 2005: Updating the U.S. Census Bureau

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Raymond Crawford (1915-1996), racing driver
  • John Denver (1943-1997), country and folk singer
  • Demi Moore (born 1962 ), actress

Attractions

  • Walker Air Force Base
  • Hangar 84

Festivals

  • Roswell UFO Festival
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