[1] The town itself was first settled in the mid-1860s, and for a time thrived as a trading post.
Its name derives from seven creeks that flowed through it, into the Pecos River.
[2] The Seven Rivers Warriors, a gang that operated on the Murphy-Dolan side of the Lincoln County War, used the town as its refuge.
[2] The town grown in the 1880s with the addition of a schoolhouse, hotel, post office and saloons.
[2] The town eventually declined until only the cemetery remained until 1988, when the Brantley Dam was constructed and the cemetery was moved to Artesia.