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“ The 1930 ’ s marked a time when Albuquerque families began moving to the North Valley in greater numbers, some buying and restoring abandoned adobe homes, others proceeding to build large new houses .” United States Representatives Albert Simms and his wife Ruth Hanna McCormick were among these families and built two houses designed by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem on the site of the current-day Los Poblanos Ranch.

The valley continued to be home to many farms and ranches, and dairies were run by both Anglo and Spanish families alike.

After World War II there was a new flood of settlers to Albuquerque and the number of able-bodied men to work the land had thinned.

Housing developments began to pop up on any available land around the Valley.

Rob Lee Meadows was built on the site of the old Los Ranchos plaza and the farmlands belonging to the Robert Dietz family were turned into the rows of houses of Dietz Farms.