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Forgotten Albuquerque, NM (IMG) (Images of America)

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In 1706, Spanish colonists founded the Villa de Alburquerque on the wooded banks of the Rio Grande. Three hundred years later, that once quiet farming community has grown to change into Albuquerque, the largest city within the state of New Mexico. Over the centuries, this fascinating city’s identity has metamorphosed time and again. In 1862, it briefly became the western capital of the Confederate States of The us, before Confederate hopes for the territory were destroyed on the Battle of Glorieta Pass. In 1880, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad brought industry and wealth from the east, in addition to tuberculosis-infected “lungers” who came by the thousands to are looking for a cure in “the Heart of Health Country.” Then, in 1926, Route 66 transformed the city into a neon-decked oasis for automobile travelers journeying throughout the newly accessible West. Although many of these identities have faded, their legacy lives on within the beating heart of an ever-changing city.

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