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Under the influence of Clyde Tingley, who took office as Governor of New Mexico in 1935, some of the projects included new fairgrounds for the New Mexico State Fair, a new Albuquerque Municipal Airport, three grade-separated railroad crossings, and a variety of schools, community centers, and other public buildings. The city continued to grow ...
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] 1889 – University of New Mexico founded. 1890 – Population: 3,785. [4]
Old Town is the historic original town site of Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the provincial kingdom of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, established in 1706 by New Mexico governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés. It is listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties as the Old Albuquerque Historic District , [ 1 ] and is protected by a ...
Founded in 1613 as Bermuda City by Thomas Dale. 1614: Albany, New York: New York: United States: Oldest US settlement north of Virginia and second oldest state or territorial capital in the continental United States, incorporated 1686 1614 Sirinhaém: Pernambuco: Brazil Declared vila in 1627; cidade in 1892. [36] 1615: Cabo Frio: Rio de Janeiro ...
New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries (1962), standard survey; Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, 2 vol, (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008) 393 pp. ISBN 978-1-890689-17-9; Chavez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0-8263-3051-7
Albuquerque, New Mexico – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [81] Pop 2010 [82] Pop 2020 [80] % 2000 % ...
The villa of San Felipe Neri de Alburquerque (present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico) was founded in 1706 and it also became an important terminal. Because of its defensive position on the Camino Real, the Villa de Alburquerque became the center of commercial exchange between Nuevo México and the rest of New Spain during the 18th century, trading ...
The town of Albuquerque (modern Albuquerque, New Mexico) was founded in 1706. Other Mexican towns in the region included Paso del Norte (modern Ciudad Juárez), founded in 1667; Santiago de la Monclova in 1689; Panzacola, Tejas in 1681; and San Francisco de Cuéllar (modern city of Chihuahua) in 1709.