1880
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New Mexico Town Company is formed. Franz Huning, Elias Stover, and William Hazeldine begin buying land on behalf of New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad along the proposed railroad right of way.
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1880
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New Albuquerque surveyed
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1880
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First passenger train arrives, special excursion from Santa Fe
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1880
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Albuquerque Street Railway Company Incorporated
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1880
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Albuquerque Gas Company created
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1881
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Presbyterian Church opens first Indian School in Albuquerque
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1881
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New Town gets a postmaster
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1881
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First telephone service
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1881
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Raynolds brothers move Central Bank to New Town at 2nd and Gold
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1881
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Mariano Otero, Elias Stover, and the Armijo brothers found First National Bank of Albuquerque
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1881
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Milton Yarberry elected town marshal after serving as constable for the Merchant's Police Force
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1881
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Congregational Church dedicated
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1882
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Albuquerque Indian School moves to new campus
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1882
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Streetcars connect Old Town with New Albuquerque
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1882
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Fire trucks purchased
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1882
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First balloon ascension
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1882
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Albuquerque Bridge, a wooden toll bridge across the Rio Grande, opens
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1882
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Immaculate Conception Church established
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1883
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Albuquerque Electric Light Company created
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1883
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County seat returns to Albuquerque from Bernalillo
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1883
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Albuquerque Electric Light Company installs first arc lights
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1883
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Huning Castle built
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1883
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Grant Building, home of Grant's Opera House, built by Angus Grant at 3rd and Railroad [Central Avenue]. First production was H.M.S. Pinafore.
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1884
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Central New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association is founded in Albuquerque to discourage cattle rustling
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1884
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Rio Grande floods, runs down the railroad tracks, and buries two old engines
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1884
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First National Bank stockholders sell out to Raynolds brothers
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1884
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St. Vincent's Academy established; school building completed at 5th and Railroad [Central] in 1885
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1885
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First incandescent lights
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1885
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Population 2,000 (New Town only)
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1885
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Voters approve incorporation of Albuquerque
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1885
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Trees planted in Robinson Park
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1885
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Henry Jaffa elected first Mayor of Albuquerque.
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1886
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U.S. government takes over Albuquerque Indian School from the Presbyterian Church
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1886
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Ballut Abyad Temple established
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1887
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Harwood Girls’ School established by Women’s Division of the Methodist Church
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1888
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Southwestern Brewery and Ice incorporated; existing building completed 1898
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1889
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University of New Mexico established in Albuquerque by Territorial Legislature
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