A Quick 300 Years

Long before Chris Columbus was a twinkle in his daddy’s eye, Pueblos lived in the Rio Grande Valley, farming what would become present-day Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over the past 300 years, Spain, Mexico, the Confederate States of America, the United States and then the state of New Mexico have flown flags over these square miles of what has been river, swamp, farmland, vineyards and desert. It was April 23, 1706, when Spaniard Francisco Cuervo y Valdez founded a little villa on the banks o