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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OWR_the-historic-green-bridge_Las-Cruces-NM.html
This structure is the oldest steel highway bridge in New Mexico, built in 1902 by Chaves County as part of the three-span Pecos River Bridge east of Roswell. There it connected the growing town with the smaller communities and ranches of the Easte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EED_pat-garrett-murder-site_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Pat Garrett, the Lincoln County Sheriff who shot and killed William "Billy the Kid" Bonney at Fort Stanton in 1881, was himself murdered at a remote site nearby on February 29, 1908. Wayne Brazel, a local cowboy, confessed to shooting Garrett but …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMT_nike-hercules-missile_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Anti-aircraft missiles like this Nike Hercules once stood guard around many major U.S. cities and facilities during the Cold War. They were capable of knocking down high-flying, fast-moving bombers with high-explosive warheads or, equipped with a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMR_heroes-of-bataan_Las-Cruces-NM.html
More than fourteen hundred New Mexicans fought with the 200th Coast Artillery (CAC) Regiment defending the Philippines and the Bataan Peninsula at the beginning of World War II. The regiment received the Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMK_americas-first-battle-of-world-war-ii-the-philippines_Las-Cruces-NM.html
For America, WWII began of December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first of Japan's day-long assault on locations throughout the Pacific. Major American installations on Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, were also devast…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPJC_site-of-san-agust-n-springs_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Here on July 27, 1861, less than 300 Confederate troops intercepted 500 Union soldiers retreating from Fort Fillmore to Fort Stanton. Exhausted from the heat and famished for water, the Union troops straggled across the desert in a five-mile evacu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPJB_san-august-n-pass_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Divide between the Tularosa Basin to the east and Jornada del Muerto to the west, cut between the Organ Mountains to the south and the San Augustin-San Andres Mountains to the north. White gypsum sands glisten to the northeast. Roadcuts are in Ter…