These vast and magnificent caverns contain over 21 miles of explored corridors. The chambers contain countless stalactites and stalagmites unrivaled in size and beauty. The caverns are within a reef that formed in an ancient sea 240 million years . . . — — Map (db m280128)
The Civilian Conservation Corps provided employment for more than 50,000 young men in New Mexico during the great depression of the 1930's. At the National Park Service CCC Camp, they developed nearby Rattle Snake Springs into a permanent water . . . — — Map (db m280129) HM
The massive concrete flume in the distance
carries water from the Pecos River to
irrigate much of the farmland in this area.
It is a vital link in an extensive irrigation
system which made possible development
of the region's agricultural . . . — — Map (db m300581) HM
The massive concrete flume in the distance carries water from the Pecos River to irrigate much of the farmland in this area. It is a vital link in an extensive irrigation system which made possible development of the region's agricultural . . . — — Map (db m300582) HM
The massive concrete flume in the distance carries water from the Pecos River to irrigate much of the farmland in this area. It is a vital link in an extensive irrigation system which made possible development of the region's agricultural . . . — — Map (db m301295) HM
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided employment for more than 50,000 young men in New Mexico during the Great Depression as part of President Roosevelt's New Deal Program. Three CCC companies were located where the Carlsbad Hospital now . . . — — Map (db m280131) HM
Eddy County was created in 1889. The original Eddy County courthouse was built in 1892 and is considered to be one of the most picturesque buildings of this type in the Southwest with its Spanish style architecture. It contains many unique and . . . — — Map (db m300850) HM
After leaving Fort Sumner, the Goodnight-Loving Trail forked in two directions. This branch, developed by Oliver Loving in 1866, followed the Pecos River to Las Vegas, and the Santa Fe Trail to Raton Pass. The great Texas cattle drives followed this . . . — — Map (db m300575) HM
Fellow Travelers, imagine the land and mountains before you covered by a deep inland sea. Then imagine a large reef forming over 255 million years ago. As the inland sea vanished minerals such as calcite and aragonite bonded together the sea life . . . — — Map (db m61488) HM
Guadalupe Mountains to southwest rise from Pecos River Valley, with higher southern peaks at 8,750 feet. Bold escarpment is of famous Capitan limestone, an ancient reef similar to Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and host to Carlsbad Caverns as . . . — — Map (db m280133) HM
During the terrible "la grippe" flu epidemic of
1918, Grandma fearlessly led other women in
nursing and feeding the sick in tents and shacks
along the banks of the Pecos River. She did not
lose a single patient, later opening a sanatorium
in . . . — — Map (db m300832) HM
Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852 - 1968). Four Sisters of Loretto, Mother Magdalen Hayden and Sisters Roberta Brown, Rosana Dant and Catherine Mahoney, arrived in Santa Fe from Kentucky on September 26,1852. In January 1853 . . . — — Map (db m300896) HM
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done. — — Map (db m5979) HM
