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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. [63] More recently, a major winter storm in late February 2015 dropped up to a foot (30 cm) of snow on most of the city.
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.
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 .
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The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway reached Albuquerque in 1880, building a depot about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the plaza. This led to the creation of a rival "New Albuquerque" (now Downtown Albuquerque) which quickly boomed thanks to the railroad and was incorporated as the City of Albuquerque in 1891. The original town, now called Old ...
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The Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico (Western Keres: Kawaika [kʰɑwɑjkʰɑ]) is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people in west-central New Mexico, near the city of Albuquerque, in the United States. Part of the Laguna territory is included in the Albuquerque metropolitan area, chiefly around Laguna's Route 66 Resort
As a result, the current minimalist section on the founding and naming of the outpost and eventual town is relegated to “a Duke” and a “town in Spain”. And the only citation is the “historical foundation”; typically defined as a social club of retirees who read a couple of books and were born and raised there.