Details for Albuquerque
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5493000104
Data
| Marker Number | 104 |
| Atlas Number | 5493000104 |
| Marker Title | Albuquerque |
| Index Entry | Albuquerque |
| Address | FM 1681, NW of Nixon |
| City | Nixon |
| County | Wilson |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 612336 |
| UTM Northing | 3243913 |
| Subject Codes | outlaws; sheriffs; ghost towns |
| Marker Year | 1975 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | From Nixon take FM 1681 northwest to grounds of Union Valley Homecoming Association. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 20" x 20" |
| 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. (1972) |