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KINNEY REALTY GUIDE TO ALBUQUERQUE

A QUICK 300

YEARS

© Western New Mexico University

efore Christopher Columbus Sailed to depot accidentally dropped the first 'r' on a
America the Pueblos decorated the landscape sign in the 1800s in Alburquerque and it stuck.
Bof what is now Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Over the past 300 years Albuquerque has become Albuquerque only became an official State of
what is now a melting pot of cultures derived from the USA in 1912, a little over a hundred years
Spanish, Native American and European (mainly ago and has grown exponentially since then.
German and Irish) heritages. It began as a villa of Albuquerque today is now home to farmers,
just 18 official families and is now home to over ranchers as well as large companies such as
one million people, half in the metro area alone! Intel, Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic
Systems, General Mills and tons more.
lbuquerque began as farmland and vallies
and used to be spelled 'Alburquerque'
A. What happened? A railroad railway

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