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Ruidoso, NM

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Ruidoso, NM

August 20, 2026

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Ruidoso, New Mexico, had a municipal swimming pool in the 1930s that was preceded by an earlier steam-heated pool near Upper Canyon, east of South Street, likely built in the 1920s on the Wingfield 40. Local residents Dan Swearingin, Marie Rooney, and Bill Hart recalled that the pool was warmed by…

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