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The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
Albuquerque is located near the crossroads of several ecoregions. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , [ 60 ] the city is located in the southeastern edge of the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau , with the Arizona/New Mexico Mountains ecoregion defining the adjacent Sandia-Manzano mountains, including the foothills in the eastern ...
Albuquerque Browns baseball team [11] and St. Vincent Academy [8] established. Park Van Tassel makes the first balloon flight in New Mexico Territory on July 4 at New Town. [12] 1883 Germania club founded. [13] Ladies' Library Association active. 1885 New town of Albuquerque chartered. [14] Henry Jaffa elected mayor of new town. [1]
Leiper's Fork is located along the Natchez Trace, which was an important travel route for Native Americans and early European-American settlers.The area was settled in the late 1700s by settlers from North Carolina and Virginia who had received land grants as payment for service in the American Revolution.
Smith County is located in the region of the state known as Middle Tennessee. Its county seat is Carthage . [ 3 ] The county was organized in 1799 and is named for Daniel Smith , a Revolutionary War veteran who made the first map of Tennessee and served as a United States senator .
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
[11]: 251 Old Town's fortunes began to improve in the 1940s as Albuquerque citizens began to take note of Old Town's historic value, and the Old Albuquerque Historical Society was established in 1946. [12] Old Town was annexed by the city in 1949, [13] bringing municipal improvements like paved streets and sidewalks for the first time.
Rogers was born August 21, 1764, near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, the son of James Rogers and his wife Elizabeth Brown.Rogers emigrated to the British colonies in North America and, after coming down from Philadelphia through Virginia, he ended up, after the American Revolution, travelling to the overmountain area of North Carolina, then known as the State of Franklin.