LubbockFor 12 millennia, people were drawn to a water source located in the region Spanish conquistadores named the Llano Estacado, a vast plateau 3,000 feet above sea level and 300 miles long and wide. Near this site in 1890, settlers combined two fledgling communities to create the town of Lubbock. Finally incorporated in 1909 and soon promoted as the "Hub City," Lubbock doubled its original population of 1,900 in each of its first six decades, nurturing growth through civic cooperation, small business enterprise, higher education, and health care services. Today, almost 240,000 people call Lubbock home, and the city serves as the socioeconomic center of the Llano Estacado. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 6 |
Introduction | 7 |
Settling Down | 9 |
The Hub of the Plains | 31 |
The Wins of | 55 |
The Cottonest City in All the World | 79 |
Unbelievable 6 | 101 |
9 | 102 |
79 | 109 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agribusiness Army Air Field Avenue H band became Broadway Broadway and Avenue building built celebration Church Cindy Martin Citizens National City of Lubbock community of Lubbock cotton harvest Courtesy of Cindy Courtesy of Don Courtesy of Southwest Courtesy of Visit Courtesy of Whit Courthouse Square dance downtown Lubbock Elvis established in Lubbock Estacado growing Hispanic Joe Ely Llano located Lubbock County Lubbock Heritage Society Lubbock High School Lubbock Municipal Lubbock Sanitarium Lubbock Tornado Mac Davis Mackenzie Park men’s Methodist Nicolett Hotel Nineteenth Street opened organized Overton performances photograph population Punta de Agua ranch Red Raiders region residential Rix Victory estate Rodeo Rodney Goebel served shoppers Shopping Center South Plains Southwest Collection Southwest Conference Street and Avenue Texas Avenue Texas Tech campus Texas Tech University Texas Technological College Textile Engineering Theater Today town Visit Lubbock Waylon Jennings West Texas Whit Rix Victory Women’s