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History

Alamogordo was a "planned community" before anyone even used that term. It officially began in June 1898 as a railroad town, the brainchild of New York entrepreneur Charles Eddy. Eddy envisioned a community featuring large, wide thoroughfares and irrigation ditches lined with the great Cottonwood trees that grew to great dimensions in the area. (The name "Alamo Gordo" translated from the Spanish means "fat Cottonwood.") Eddy's instincts were right, and the city and the trees are still flourishing today.

The need for room to conduct aerial bombing and gunnery training during World War II led to the construction of what is now Holloman Air Force Base in 1942 — and that changed Alamogordo forever. It was only a few short years later that the detonation of the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in 1945 drew great attention to Alamogordo. And while the Trinity Site is more than 80 miles from Alamogordo, history will forever associate the small railroad town of Eddy's dreams along with the Trinity Site as the home of the atomic bomb. More logically, Alamogordo has become inseparably connected to Holloman Air Force Base for the major industry it provides in contract work.

The old Alamogordo of ranches, railroads, cowboys and a climate second to none still welcomes those who wish to visit or relocate here. Since World War II, Alamogordo has been on the cutting edge of technological development, and that makes Alamogordo, New Mexico one of the most interesting and exciting places in the world.