Albuquerque

The first settlers were the Mississippian brothers-in-law Henry S. Hastings and Samuel McCracken. William W. Davis kept its post office from 1870 to 1877, and Martha H. McCracken reopened it that year and ran it until 1883. Helm's killing was one of a series of violent acts in the Sutton-Taylor feud. Business soon shifted to a new village, Union, two miles south, and a 1914 survey placed the old townsite in Gonzales County. By 1912 only deserted buildings remained.

What the plaque says

Albuquerque Near 1857 Ranch of Samuel and Martha (Hastings) McCracken. Post office, opened 1869, was named by veterans of Sibley's Civil War campaign in New Mexico. Town had businesses, school, blacksmith shop where DeWitt County Sheriff Jack Helm died (1873) of blast from gun of John Wesley Hardin. Post office closed 1883. (1972)

Where it stands

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