Harwood

In 1900, everything north of Mountain Road was beyond the city limit. It was here that a giant sawmill was built in the early 1900s; its source of lumber the Zuni Mountains to the west. The American Lumber Co. was second only to the railroad as Albuquerque’s largest employer. Its 110-acre complex was built between 1903 and 1905 near Twelfth Street. That’s how the Sawmill Neighborhood got its name. At its peak the mill employed 850 men and produced lumber, doors and shingles. In the blocks around the sawmill, many workers built frame and/or adobe homes.  Sawmill resembles Barelas both as a working-class neighborhood and as a mixture of Anglo and Hispanic building styles. And like Barelas, its history predates its major industry along Mountain Road, a historic route to the mountains from Old Albuquerque.

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