Old Town Stockade
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1890
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions7 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (19.7 × 12.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.044.A
DescriptionEarly view of the center of the plaza in Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The United States Army Guard house, later the Bernalillo County Jail, is visible in the center with its 121-foot flagpole. It was a jail, but the Bernalillo County Jail was located at Rio Grande and Railroad Avenue Southwest. The fence, erected in 1881, around the plaza is also visible.Railroad Avenue is now called Central Avenue and runs east to west through downtown. Albuquerque. "Railroad Avenue" came from being located along the city's railway and depot. The name was changed between 1907 and 1908. Central Avenue also overlaps with sections of the historic Route 66 Highway.
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