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Portales takes its name from the porch-like appearance of a cave entrance at nearby Portales Springs. After the Pecos Valley Railroad opened the area for commercial agricultural development, it grew into a major peanut producing region in the early twentieth century. Eastern New Mexico University was founded there in 1934.
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