NMSU & the Aggies
New Mexico State University sits just outside the city limits. It began as Las Cruces College, grew into the territory’s agricultural college and still shapes the town, from its chile research to Aggie basketball.
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Hiram Hadley, a teacher from Indiana, opened Las Cruces College on September 17, 1888. A year later the Rodey Act placed the territory’s agricultural college “at or near the town of Las Cruces”. The university took its present name in 1960. (Wikipedia)
The Chile Pepper Institute was founded at NMSU in 1992 to study New Mexico’s state vegetable. (Wikipedia)
The New Mexico State Aggies reached the NCAA basketball Final Four in 1970. Home games are played at the Pan American Center, which seats 12,515. (Wikipedia, Wikipedia)
In 1920 students built a giant letter A out of stones on Tortugas Mountain, three miles east of campus. (Wikipedia)
Las Cruces magic: Desert peaks, valley farms and a chile that drops at midnight
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