In the early 1900s, the Southwest had become a place of rest, recuperation, and often recovery for those with tuberculosis. Still, they were not the only people visiting to better
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Editor’s note: The Journal continues “What’s in a Name?,” a twice a month column in which staff writer Elaine Briseño will give a short history of how places in New Mexico got their names.
The main gate at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the atomic bomb era. (Courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Los Alamos Ranch School emerged atop the Pajarito plateau in 1917, fulfilling the dream of Ashley Pond, a free-spirited businessman from Detroit.
He could have never imagined that the campus, an outdoor sanctuary for burgeoning young men, would become the site of one of the country’s most celebrated, and deadly, scientific achievements – the atomic bomb. The campus also gave rise to Bathtub Row, one of the most prominent and unusually named streets in the area.