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Old Town and the founding of Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Founded as a Spanish villa around a plaza and a church, and named for a duke whose title had an extra r in it that Americans later dropped. The railway arrived in 1880 and built a new town two miles east, which is why the old plaza was left alone.
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