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1899. A post office is established at the present site of Artesia. It is named Stegman for a local land promoter whose wife, Sallie, is a niece of John Chisum. On their ranch is the first artesian well in the area. May 23, Robert W. Tansill proposes changing the name of Eddy to Carlsbad after the mineral water spa in Czechoslovakia. ................
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