by
Donna Blake Birchell, The Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Eddy County�s 4,198 square miles were carved from the massive land holdings of Lincoln County, then the largest county in the United States, on February 25, 1889. Early Spanish explorers and Native Americans had used the seemingly endless water supply of the Pecos River, which bisects the county, as...