Artesian Well
Children in the Rogers family (dressed in their Sunday best) pose next to their family farm's artesian well in the late 1900s.
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This is the very beginning of our town! The dirt track alongside the railroad tracks is today's First St., and the saloon sits on today's Main St. (facing west).
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...and when the dust settled, the partial remains of an old bathtub and the front chimney lay at rest!
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This photo was taken in the early 1900s only a few blocks from the Museum. The dirt track the horse and rider are traveling on is Grand Ave. and the view is looking north. Does anyone recognize it?!
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Museum Manager Nancy Dunn cracks up as Museum Registrar Carissa Baize demonstrates a Disappearing Water trick with good sport Museum Maintenance Tech Yvette Duarte. Good thing that water had vanished!
View Article"It's Not Magic, It's Science" program
Museum Registrar Carissa Baize shows APL Summer Reading Program attendees the scientific secrets behind a Disappearing Water trick, so that they can fool their family members. Like her hat?
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In this photo, everyone (parents and staff too) is experimenting with a Fortune-Telling Fish.
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Contractors Southwest CM started stripping our grass out today in preparation for building our new parking area. Our lawn looks like it was skinned!
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This milk bottle was dug up at the Museum today (7/24/14), and dates from 1937-1940. The name of Artesia Dairy owner B.E. Green can be faintly seen here.
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Southwest CM dug up this intact milk bottle from our Multi-Use building site today (7/24/14). Some of the red lettering is still fainty visible for the Artesia Dairy, Artesia New Mexico. The bottle...
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