Filled with historical buildings, wonders of the world, hearty agriculture, and lots of crude oil, Eddy County is a unique mix of the Old West and new world technology.
In the early 1920s, when many of the area's artesian wells began to dwindle, another kind of well was discovered when the Illinois #3 oil well came in, opening up the Artesia oil fields locally and the Permian Basin regionally. Today, the oil and gas

industry continues to flourish.