​Albuquerque
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Marker Text: ​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. (1975)

Marker No: 104 

Aluminum 20 x 20 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.319258, -97.843117

Location: ​From Nixon take FM 1681 northwest to grounds of Union Valley Homecoming Association.