School Canyon
School Canyon is a valley in Los Alamos, New Mexico and has an elevation of 7,175 feet.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mesa Public Library and Los Alamos History Museum.
Mesa Public Library
Library
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Mesa Public Library is the Los Alamos branch of the Los Alamos County Library System in New Mexico, United States. The library collection has more than 160,000 items which include books, CDs, DVDs, original paintings, and material in several foreign languages.
Los Alamos History Museum
Museum
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The Los Alamos History Museum is housed in two buildings: the historic Guest Cottage, located next to Fuller Lodge, of Los Alamos Ranch School, which was General Leslie Groves's favorite place to stay during the Manhattan Project; and the Bethe House a short distance away, where Hans Bethe lived for a brief time after the end of World War II.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Los Alamos.
Los Alamos
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Los Alamos is a small town in northern New Mexico, about an hour northwest of Santa Fe. Its claim to fame is the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Oppenheimer and other physicists created the world's first atomic bomb during World War II, concluding the Golden Age of Modern Physics and heralding the Atomic Age.
School Canyon
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 7,175 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.89223° or 35° 53′ 32″ northLongitude
-106.31719° or 106° 19′ 2″ westElevation
7,175 feet (2,187 metres)Open location code
857MVMRM+V4GeoNames ID
11387945
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