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Dorsey Manor, The


Built by controversial Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey in the late 1870s and early 1880s, this part log and part stone mansion was once a center of social life in the southwest. Since its completion, it has been a unique architectural feature in New Mexico.

In 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity Site in New Mexico. The test was part of the Manhattan Project, a secret government program to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
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