Alamogordo Museum of History, Local history museum in Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States.
The Alamogordo Museum of History is a local history museum in Alamogordo, New Mexico, run by the Tularosa Basin Historical Society. It occupies a renovated historic adobe building at the corner of White Sands Boulevard and Tenth Street. Its collection holds over 3,000 historical photographs, an archive of documents, a bison trophy head, La Luz Pottery Factory pottery, and artifacts from prehistoric Native American tribes found in caves above Alamogordo.
The Tularosa Basin Historical Society, a volunteer organization, was created in 1964 to preserve the history of the Tularosa Basin and operates the museum. The museum first shared a building with the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce at 1301 N. White Sands Blvd. In 2006 the City of Alamogordo received a $300,000 state grant to buy a historic adobe building at White Sands Blvd. and Tenth Street; after renovation, the museum is now housed there.
The museum holds photographs and documents that show how families in the region lived across different generations. These materials reveal the daily habits and traditions of people who made this place their home.
The museum occupies a renovated historic adobe building at the corner of White Sands Boulevard and Tenth Street, the address it took up after the city bought the structure with a $300,000 State Legislature grant in 2006. The earlier site was shared with the Chamber of Commerce at 1301 N. White Sands Blvd.
The museum's 47-star flag was never an official U.S. design: the Flag Act of 1818 moved the star count from 46 to 48 on July 4, 1912, after Arizona joined. The flag hung for years in a bar in Blue Lake, California, until its owner, former Alamogordo resident Wade Topping, donated it to the museum in 1999.
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