Alamogordo 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 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.
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