Historical Marker

Alamogordo

Historical marker location:

Alamogordo, New Mexico

( in the town of Alamogordo)

In 1898 the brothers Charles B. and John A. Eddy, promoters of the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad, laid out and platted a town here. Alamogordo served as a junction with a railroad line to the lumbering operation in the Sacramento Mountains. The first atomic bomb was exploded 60 miles northwest of here on July 16, 1945. Population–24,024 Elevation–4350 ft.