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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 ...
Albuquerque saw minor action when the retreating Confederates were involved in a skirmish with Union troops in the Battle of Albuquerque. For the most part, however, the town remained a quiet agricultural community. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway reached Albuquerque in 1880, building a depot about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the plaza.
The museum opened as the Museum of Albuquerque in 1967, operating out of a temporary location in the recently vacated Old Albuquerque Municipal Airport Building. [3] In 1975, voters approved a bond issue to fund construction of a new, permanent location on the site of a former truck terminal in Old Town .
The state led in the national war bond drive and had fifty federal installations, including glider and bombardier training schools. The state rapidly modernized during the war, as 65,000 young men (and 700 young women) joined the services, where they received a wide range of technical training and saw the outside world, many for the first time.
Etymology [5] Pop. [6] Area [3] [7] Map Bernalillo County: 001: Albuquerque: 1852: One of the nine original counties. The Gonzales-Bernal family, Spanish nobles who settled the territory in the seventeenth century 671,586: 1,166 sq mi (3,020 km 2) Catron County: 003: Reserve: 1921: Part of Socorro County.
The city was one of several in the region experiencing a severe winter storm on December 28–30, 2006, with locations in Albuquerque receiving between 10.5 and 26 inches (27 and 66 cm) of snow. [62] More recently, a major winter storm in late February 2015 dropped up to a foot (30 cm) of snow on most of the city.
State name Date first attested in original language Language of origin Word(s) in original language Meaning and notes Alabama: April 19, 1692: Choctaw/Alabama: alba amo/Albaamaha 'Thicket-clearers' [3] or 'plant-cutters', from alba, '(medicinal) plants', and amo, 'to clear'. The modern Choctaw name for the tribe is Albaamu. [4] Alaska: December ...
Tijeras is located at (35.087550, -106.377354), [12] in central New Mexico, approximately 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Albuquerque, on Interstate 40 (Exit 175) and U.S. Highway 66 /New Mexico state highway