Overview of Albuquerque: History

Albuquerque was founded in 1706 as a small Spanish settlement on the banks of the Rio Grande and was named for the Duke of Alburquerque. In the 1880s the railroad came to town, and almost overnight a new city grew up around the train tracks a couple of miles away from the original settlement. Read More »

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Overview of Albuquerque: History is based on Albuquerque by Dale Arnett, Ryan Holliday, csuski@cs.unm.edu, Megan Eaves, Eco84, PerryPlanet, LtPowers, Inas, iGuide and others. Travel guides are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. See background image credits.