Formed from Young and Bexar territories Created August 21, 1876 Organized March 10, 1891 Named in honor of Colonel Thomas S. Lubbock 1817 - 1862 Member of the New Orleans Greys at the storming of Bexar, commander of a company in the Santa Fe . . . — — Map (db m168812) HM
City named for Confederate
General Patrick R. Cleburne
1828-1864
Born near Cork, Ireland came to U.S. 1849. Drug clerk in Ohio, became lawyer in Arkansas. Recruited 1st Arkansas Regt. for Confederacy. Elected colonel. Promoted brigadier . . . — — Map (db m54825) HM
In the early 1900s, area pioneer farmers marketed bales of cotton on this site. Today, this cotton bale serves as a monument to those who made Lubbock County and the surrounding south plains the greatest producer of upland cotton in the world. In . . . — — Map (db m102084) HM
Isham Tubbs (1852-1947) married Texana Spikes (1857-1930) in Kaufman County in 1877. They moved to the Monterey area of Lubbock County circa 1890. Isham became one of the first school board trustees and a charter member of Lubbock's first United . . . — — Map (db m73611) HM
The major tornado that struck Lubbock on May 11, 1970 was one of the most destructive in American history. That evening there was an outbreak of thunderstorms with strong winds and hail. An initial tornado touched down East of Mackenzie Park at . . . — — Map (db m295442) HM
(Two markers identify this early two-story brick home.)
Neo-classical style house built 1916 for Warren A. and Myrta Hunt Bacon. Designed by W.M. Rice of Amarillo. Bacon, a successful businessman and civic leader, lived in Lubbock . . . — — Map (db m106428) HM
On Sep. 30, 1947, the Crane Board of Trustees proposed $1,050,000 to build a new high school campus for the growing community. The board and Supt. L.L. Martin hired architect Sylvan Blum Haynes, noted for designing several other schools and . . . — — Map (db m194542) HM
In 1878 Paris Cox (1846-1888), an Indiana Quaker, visited this area with a group of buffalo hunters. Attracted by the abundance of cheap farm land, he returned to Indiana and began advertising his plans for a Quaker colony here. Although the first . . . — — Map (db m174020) HM
Nestled into a small, shallow valley created by a bend in the
north fork of the double mountain fork of the Brazos River, the
1,500-acre V-8 Ranch contains the headquarters of the vast Ioa
ranch, which was a 14 by 30-mile contiguous block of . . . — — Map (db m168604) HM
The Pecos and Northern Texas Railway, part of the Santa Fe
system, extended from Plainview to Lubbock in 1909 and
established new settlements along the line. Invited to name two
of the towns north of Lubbock, Mollie Abernathy suggested . . . — — Map (db m168511) HM
Early Hispanic residents of frontier Lubbock County included ranch hands in the 1880s. Railroad lines brought many workers to the south plains, the majority recruited from El Paso. Rail companies built row houses near construction sites, and . . . — — Map (db m106351) HM
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