DeBremond Stadium – Roswell NM

City:
Roswell, NM

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Stadiums

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Description

“Thanks to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, which promised jobs to needy citizen, many facets of modern-day Roswell were born. Workers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built several schools, Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a city hall, DeBremond Stadium, and Roswell’s first museum in 1937, today known as the Roswell Museum and Art Center.”

-John LeMay

Source notes

LeMay, John. Roswell: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing, 2008. Pg. 55.

"New Deal Sites in New Mexico," Atlas of Historic New Mexico Maps, New Mexico Humanities Council.
<https://atlas.nmhum.org/atlas.php?gmap=42>

Location Info


209 W 10th Street
Roswell, NM 88201

Coordinates: 33.403403, -104.52456

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