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Carlsbad New Mexico Area History

On The Pecos River At The Edge Of The Chihuahuan Desert!
Nestled In The Southeast Corner Of New Mexico And The Guadalupe Mountains
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In 1884, Charles B. and John Eddy formed a livestock company with Amos Bissell in southeastern New Mexico. One of their first ventures was the Halagueno Ranch. In 1887, Charles B. Eddy built the Halagueno diversion ditch on the Pecos River 3 miles above the later site of Avalon Dam and incorporated the venture as the Pecos Valley Land and Ditch Company.
    
In 1888, former sheriff Pat Garrett (known as the lawman who killed Billy the Kid) and promoter Charles Greene joined with Eddy to create a system of canals and flumes for diversion of water to their properties.
   
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Greene secured potential investors from the East including Robert W. Tansill, a famed cigar manufacturer. Eddy and his partners laid out plans for a new town on the south bank of the Pecos River, which was incorporated as the town of Eddy in September of 1888.
  
Located along the banks of the Pecos River, Carlsbad was originally christened as Eddy and was incorporated in 1893. With the flourishing of the nearby medicinal mineral springs, the town changed its name to Carlsbad, after the famous European spa, Karlsbad. In 1918, the governor proclaimed Carlsbad as a city. With the discovery of the "bat cave" in 1901 and the establishment of the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in 1930, Carlsbad gained international recognition. In 1925 potash was discovered near Carlsbad and for many years it dominated U.S. production until its decline in the 1960s.
 
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