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Lubbock, Texas, a city etched into the West Texas plains, resonates with a rich and diverse musical heritage. The city's sonic story began in the mid-20th century, and while many genres have found a home here, it is most notably known as the birthplace of rock 'n' roll icon Buddy Holly. Holly's meteoric rise in the late 1950s cemented Lubbock's place in rock history. The genres of country and western also began to flourish in the honky-tonks and dance halls of the era.

The Americana music scene has grown steadily over the years with artists like Ray Wylie Hubbard and Amanda Shires finding their voice here. More recently, Lubbock has become a vital hub for Texas country and Red Dirt music. Bands like Flatland Cavalry, Pecos & The Rooftops, and the Josh Abbott Band have risen to prominence, drawing inspiration from the landscape and culture of the region. While Lubbock’s sonic landscape is vast, it is clear that country and rock have been the most influential genres in the city’s musical evolution.

Music in Lubbock

Songs About Lubbock

Happiness Is Lubbock Texas in My Rearview Mirror
Mac Davis
95%
"Happiness is Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror"
Llano Estacado
Cooder Graw
92%
"you can still go to the Nat or the Golden Light"
Victory Bells
Josh Abbott Band
85%
"Fight Raiders, fight For the school we love so dearly Long live the Matador"
Lubbock
Flatland Cavalry
83%
"Nothing like a little bit of Lubbock to get me high"
Half of Lubbock
Mike Graham
83%
"Half of Lubbock"
Lubbock Woman
Terry Allen
82%
"She's a Lubbock woman, she's a Lubbock woman"
Lubbock in the Springtime
The Beaumonts
82%
"Lubbock in the Springtime"
Lonely Lubbock Lights
Aaron Watson
81%
"Just those lonely Lubbock lights"
Lubbock or Leave It
The Chicks
81%
"Lubbock or Leave It"
Follow You to Lubbock
Delaney Ann
81%
"Follow You to Lubbock"
Don’t Stop in Lubbock
Conner Stephens
80%
"Don't stop in Lubbock"
Lubbock
Zach Aaron
80%
"Song about Lubbock"
Lubbock (Commentary)
Flatland Cavalry
80%
"Song about Lubbock"
Lubbock
Koe Wetzel
80%
"Song about Lubbock"
Lubbock
Anna Butterss
80%
"Song about Lubbock"
Lubbock Pt. 1
The Beaumonts
80%
"Lubbock Pt. 1"
Lubbock for Love
The Best Westerns
80%
"Lubbock for Love"
downey to lubbock
dave alvin & jimmie dale gilmore
79%
Locked Up In Lubbock
Bernie Nelson
79%
"Locked Up In Lubbock"
Whole Lotta Lubbock
William Clark Green
78%
"Still gotta whole lotta Lubbock left in me"

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Artists From Lubbock

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Buddy Holly
rock
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Joe Ely
country
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore
country
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Terry Allen
country
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Jake Brooks & The Techsans Roadhouse Band
country
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The Crickets
rock
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Josh Abbott Band
country
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Flatland Cavalry
country
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Amanda Shires
americana
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Rod Taylor
country
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Delbert McClinton
blues
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Judiciary
metal
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Pecos & The Rooftops
country
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Natalie Maines
country
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Mac Davis
country
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Angela Strehli
blues
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The Hometown Boys
latin
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Rattlesnake Milk
country
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The Panhandlers
country
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Thom Brennan
electronic

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Musical Heritage

Terry Allen RoadyGoat

Lubbock gave the world Buddy Holly. It also gave the world Terry Allen — and Terry Allen never once let the place off the hook. In 1979 he came home to cut a record with Lubbock players and called it "Lubbock (on everything)." You know his songs even if the name's new to you: "Amarillo Highway" is a Texas country standard, and Little Feat cut his "New Delhi Freight Train" first. He rolls with the Panhandle Mystery Band — his son Bukka, pedal-steel man Lloyd Maines, Charlie Sexton on guitar. He's a Guggenheim fellow and a painter they hang in museums, and if you caught "Killers of the Flower Moon," that was Terry and his wife Jo Harvey up on screen. Texas Tech is putting up a whole center with their names on it. Not bad for a kid who met Elvis one of the six nights the King played Lubbock.

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Amanda Shires RoadyGoat

Growing up in Lubbock, Amanda Shires watched Bobbie Nelson play piano alongside Willie and the band — and then she went and built her own outlaw résumé the bold way. She climbed onstage uninvited at a Billy Joe Shaver show, fiddle in hand, and played her way right into his band. Seven solo albums followed, Down Fell the Doves and My Piece of Land among them. She won a Grammy for her work in the 400 Unit, the band fronted by her husband Jason Isbell, and the two of them cut the duet "The Problem" in 2020. Back in 2017 she pulled together the Highwomen with Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile, and Natalie Hemby. Lubbock breeds them stubborn. Shires wears it well.

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Buddy Holly Center RoadyGoat

Out on the West Texas Walk of Fame in Lubbock, there's a bronze man about your size, a Fender slung across him, frozen mid-song. That's Buddy Holly, cast in metal right where he came up. The center behind him lives in the old Worth and Denver Depot — a train station somebody gutted and rebuilt into a museum, one of the better examples of a depot getting a second life. Inside, the permanent exhibit walks his whole story, start to finish. Not the highlight reel — the life. You come to Lubbock, you can stand eye to eye with the statue, then step inside and meet the man it was cast from. Same town, same streets, same flat sky he grew up under. He never really left it.

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Lubbock's Pancho Clos RoadyGoat

In Lubbock, Santa comes in a poncho. They call him Pancho Clos — spelled without the a-u-s, so nobody mixes him up with the other fella. It started back in nineteen seventy-one, when three men, Agustin Medina, Jesse Reyes, and Bidal Aguero, heard a Tucson musician named Lalo Guerrero's Spanglish take on "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and brought the idea to the local American GI Forum, the Hispanic veterans group. Every year, the Sunday before Christmas, Rogers Park filled up and the kids went home with gifts. For close to thirty years, a man named Julian Perez was Pancho Clos — salt-and-pepper beard, sombrero big as a wagon wheel, the brightest poncho you ever saw. He passed in twenty-eighteen. But the beard gets handed down. Somebody puts it on every year.

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History of Lubbock

Terry's Texas Rangers and a One-Day Command RoadyGoat

Thomas Saltus Lubbock, the man this county is named for, helped raise one of the most storied cavalry outfits Texas ever put in the saddle. Along with a man named Benjamin Terry, he recruited the Eighth Texas Cavalry, but almost nobody called it that. Everybody knew them as Terry's Texas Rangers. Terry served as the colonel in charge, and Lubbock rode as the lieutenant colonel, second in command. Then came a heartbreak of timing. Colonel Terry was killed in a fight in Kentucky in December of eighteen sixty-one. A few weeks later, on January eighth, eighteen sixty-two, Thomas Lubbock was promoted to full colonel and given command of the whole regiment. There was just one cruel problem. He was already lying sick in a hospital bed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, burning up with typhoid fever. He received command of the regiment on the eighth, and he died the very next day, on January ninth. He held the top command for essentially a single day. So the name on your map belongs to a man who reached the summit of his career and lost his life within twenty-four hours of each other.

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Lubbock, TX RoadyGoat

Lubbock rises from the South Plains like a cottonwood after a rain. It's easy to think it just *happened* here, but there's a reason this particular spot became a regional hub. Think about it: endless flat land, perfect for cotton. Once the railroad came through, it was almost inevitable. People needed a place to process and ship their crops, and Lubbock became that place. The funny thing is, even with the agriculture and the university, what really draws people in is something you can't plan. Buddy Holly. He was just a kid from Lubbock who changed music, and his story is woven into the city’s identity. You can visit the Buddy Holly Center, see the glasses he wore, and feel that connection to a legend. That pulls in tourists, sure. But if you ask a local why people really stay, they’ll tell you it's the wide-open spaces, the big sky, and the stubborn West Texas spirit. It's a place where you can still see pronghorn antelope on the horizon, where the wind always blows, and where a prairie dog town might be just around the corner. It gets in your blood, and you can't shake it.

The Hometown Kid Who Changed Rock and Roll RoadyGoat

The name Lubbock honors a nineteenth century Ranger, but the modern name that put this city on the world's radar belongs to a bespectacled kid who grew up right here. Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock on September seventh, nineteen thirty-six, and his real name was Charles Hardin Holley, spelled with an extra letter e. The story goes that his last name got shortened to Holly because a recording contract misspelled it, and the shortened version simply stuck. From this flat, windy corner of West Texas, Holly helped invent the sound and the look of rock and roll, thick black glasses, a Fender guitar, and songs that artists have been copying ever since. His life burned fast. He was gone at just twenty-two, killed in a plane crash in Iowa in the winter of nineteen fifty-nine on the night people would later call the day the music died. Back home in Lubbock, they honored him with an eight and a half foot bronze statue downtown and a West Texas Walk of Fame, where more than a hundred musicians and artists have been recognized. So this Ranger's town gave the world one of its greatest musicians.

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Buddy Holly

1936

Charles Hardin “Buddy” Holley was born in Lubbock on September 7, 1936, to Ella Pauline (Drake) and Lawrence Odell “L.O.” Holley. The youngest of four children, Buddy grew up in a musical household, with his mother and siblings singing and playing instruments. Buddy showed musical aptitude, taking violin, piano and steel guitar lessons. He took up the acoustic guitar after his brother, Travis, bought a $15 harmony model. Buddy, with other young Lubbock “pickers,” formed several country groups. In 1955, he saw Elvis Presley in concert and was impressed by Presley’s rhythm and performance style. Buddy and his friends were opening for big country acts at the Fair Park Coliseum when Eddie Crandall, an agent and manager, saw a performance and helped Buddy broker a Decca Recording Contract. Buddy’s last name was misspelled on the contract: “Holley” became “Holly.” Buddy’s relationship with Decca was short-lived as his early recording sessions failed to produce a hit. In 1957, Buddy and his new band, The Crickets, began working with producer Norman Petty in Clovis, New Mexico. On February 25, 1957, they recorded “That’ll Be the Day,” the first of several hits on the Brunswick Label. Their success led the band to tour widely in the United States and Canada. In 1958, Buddy Holly and The Crickets toured England. The group had a profound influence on Rock and Roll in England — from their sound to Buddy’s distinct look. On February 3, 1959, during a three-week tour of the Midwestern United States, Buddy’s chartered plane crashed after takeoff due to bad weather. There were no survivors. Buddy Holly was 22 years old.

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Holley, Charles Hardin [Buddy Holly]

1957

Buddy Holly, rock-and-roll pioneer, was born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas. He was the youngest of four children of Lawrence and Ella (Drake) Holley. His father worked as a tailor and salesman in a Lubbock clothing store, and though Lawrence Holley did not play an instrument himself, he and his wife encouraged the musical talents of their children. Buddy made his debut at the age of five, when he appeared with his brothers in a talent show in nearby County Line and won five dollars for his rendition of "Down the River of Memories." At eleven he took piano lessons and proved to be an apt pupil, but quit after only nine months. After briefly studying the steel guitar, he picked up the acoustic guitar and taught himself to play. At Hutchinson Junior High School he befriended Bob Montgomery; the two formed a duo that performed country and what eventually was called rock-and-roll music. In fall 1953 Holly, Montgomery, and bass player Larry Welborn earned a regular spot on Lubbock radio station KDAV's Sunday Party program. While attending Lubbock High School, Holly studied printing and drafting and worked part-time at Panhandle Steel Products. He apparently never doubted, however, that he would become a professional musician. In 1954 and 1955 he, Montgomery, and Welborn made a few demonstration recordings in Wichita Falls and hoped to land a recording contract, but in 1956 Decca offered Holly a solo contract. Decca was well-known as a country-and-western label and tried unsuccessfully to fit Holly into the country mold. After releasing two unsuccessful singles the company terminated Holly's contract. Buddy returned to Lubbock and was still determined to make it big in the music business. In February 1957 he, Welborn (who was soon replaced by Joe B. Mauldin), drummer Jerry Allison, and guitarist Niki Sullivan went to independent producer Norman Petty 's studio in Clovis, New Mexico, and adopted the name the Crickets . From this point Holly's career took off. Brunswick Records signed the Crickets, while Holly signed a solo contract with Brunswick's Coral subsidiary. The records put out under the Crickets' name had backing vocals, while those put out under Holly's name, with the exception of "Rave On," did not. The arrangement made no difference in their recording technique. All of the records included Holly's unmistakable vocal style, which incorporated hiccups, nonsense syllables, a wide range, and abrupt changes of pitch, and was described by one critic as playfully ironic and childlike. The first Crickets single, "That'll Be the Day," backed with "I'm Looking for Someone to Love," was released on Brunswick Records on May 27, 1957. The record eventually reached Number 3 on the pop charts and Number 2 on the rhythm-and-blues charts. At first many listeners assumed that Holly and his band were black. In July 1957, when the Crickets flew east, they discovered that they had been booked on various package tours with black artists at such theaters as the Apollo in New York and the Howard in Washington, D.C. Their reception at the Apollo was chilly, until they launched the third day's show with a wild version of "Bo Diddley." The next few months were busy ones for Holly and his band. They appeared on television on American Bandstand , The Arthur Murray Dance Party , and The Ed Sullivan Show and on a number of package tours and concert bills with some of the most famous rock-and-rollers of the day. In late December, Holly's second solo single, "Peggy Sue," backed with "Everyday," reached Number 3 on the pop and R&B charts. The Crickets' second single, "Oh Boy!," backed with "Not Fade Away," was released in October 1957 and sold close to a million copies. Niki Sullivan quit the band, and over the next few months the Crickets toured Australia, Florida, and Great Britain as a trio before Holly asked Tommy Allsup to join as lead guitarist of the group. Their third single, "Maybe Baby," backed with "Tell Me How,"

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Buddy Holly Center

1936

Lubbock native Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy Holly) pioneered rock and roll before dying in a plane crash at age 22.

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The 1970 Lubbock Tornado

1970

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 8:15 p.m., traveling northeast through a sparsely populated part of the city. A second tornado formed at 9:35 p.m., near Texas Tech University, tracking northeast with a path of destruction nearly two miles wide. The central business district, industrial areas and downtown residential areas, including the Guadalupe neighborhood, were the most heavily damaged. The funnel continued north-northeast to the Lubbock County Club and airport where it also caused damage before lifting back into the storm at approximately 10:10 p.m. 
 The twisters caused more than $250 million in damage (more than $1.6 billion in today’s dollars), affecting 25% of the city. It destroyed 1,100 homes and damaged 8,000 others. Hundreds of businesses were destroyed or severely damaged. Twenty-six people died and 1,755 people were injured. Cleanup and relief efforts commenced immediately. A state of emergency was declared, bottled water was shipped in, and the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum became a makeshift shelter. 
 Many important advancements resulted from the tragic event. The city was given $59 million in federal relief, and a $13.6 million bond package helped fund the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, George and Helen Mahon Library, city parks and the beginnings of the Canyon Lakes system. Dr. T.T. Fujita compiled data used to develop the Fujita Scale, which measures tornadic intensity by wind speed and resulting damage. Shortly after, Texas Tech University founded the institute for disaster research (now the National Wind Institute). While the 1970 Lubbock tornado was devastating, the response demonstrated the resilience of the city and its people. (2020)


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Cotton Club

1938

The Cotton Club was a ballroom, concert arena, and dance hall in Lubbock, Texas. It was a venue for big bands, country and western performers, rock-and-roll artists, and all musicians who fell in between. Beyond being the venue for the popular artists of the time, the club interacted with the local community in various ways—from hosting the Junior Welfare League’s Charity Ball in 1946 to being Lubbock’s first, and for many years only, integrated dance hall. With such a diverse level of community involvement, the Cotton Club engaged and influenced both the Lubbock community and the larger South Plains region. The Lubbock Cotton Club, which had no connection to a more famous Harlem version in New York City, took its name from the region’s chief agricultural output. The original club, located on 50th Street and Railroad Avenue (present-day Southeast Drive) in a renovated Army Quonset hut, opened on November, 11, 1938. The first performers were Adelle Kastle and Frank “Deacon” Murino and his Men about Town. The club, established to appeal to Lubbock’s “high society” by hosting well-known orchestras and big bands, flourished. By the mid-1940s the club owners began booking country and western acts. According to former Cotton Club owner, Tommy Hancock, the change in musicians was due to the lack of enough “classy” people in Lubbock to support a 1,400-capacity club. Thus the owners began booking other artists. Owners knew they could bring in more cowboys to see Hank Williams rather than Jack Teagarden or Al Donahue. Ray Terry and his Pioneer Playboys, Tex Ritter , and the Maddox Brothers with Rose were some of the other headlining performers. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were Friday night regulars at the club from 1953 through 1955. In the mid-1950s the Cotton Club became a hub for rock-and-roll music . Elvis Presley performed at the Cotton Club on numerous occasions in 1955. In attendance at Presley’s performances was a local Lubbock musician, Buddy Holly , who met with Presley and was influenced by his style of music. Other rock-and-roll musicians played through the 1950s, including Little Richard, Fats Domino and Roy Orbison . In 1962 the club burned. Owner Ralph Lowe chose not to rebuild. Tommy Hancock and wife, Charlene Condray Hancock, both well-known musicians in the Lubbock area, asked Ralph Lowe for the club’s sign and for permission to start a new Cotton Club. The Hancocks built a new Cotton Club along the Slaton Highway (U.S. Highway 84), about fourteen miles from downtown Lubbock. The Hancocks reopened the Cotton Club in 1965, but like its predecessor, it became victim in 1966 to fire. In 1967, after the new building was complete, the Hancocks reopened the famous dance hall. The new Cotton Club was located on the site of the second incarnation. The late 1960s started a new trend at the Cotton Club. The “hippie generation” emerged in Lubbock and frequented the club. The cowboys, however, also continued to go to the club because Hancock and his band continued to play classic country and western dance music. Surprisingly the cowboys and the alternative crowd got along well, and few fights broke out between the two groups which was very unusual for the usually rough club. Johnny Hughes, along with many others, credits the peaceful union to Tommy Hancock and the atmosphere he created at the club. “The hippies and bikers and the Unitarians and the college students could coexist and there was no fighting. It was all because of Tommy Hancock. He was doing the thing Willie got known for in Austin—peaceful coexistence.” The 1970s saw a continual trend away from country and western music to a more alternative sound. Artists such as Waylon Jennings and the Maines Brothers replaced Bob Wills and Hank Thompson . By 1978 the Hancocks had grown tired of the club business and chose to sell the club to Joe Ely and C.B. Stubblefield . Ely and Stubblefield did not own the club for long, but they were able to book rising artists of the era

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Stubblefield, Christopher B., Sr.

1968

Christopher B. Stubblefield, Sr., Lubbock restaurateur and music patron, was born in Navasota, Texas, on March 7, 1931. He was the son of Christopher Columbus and Mary Stubblefield. Stubblefield, known as "C.B.," "Stubb," or "Stubbs," loved music and people. He also loved to cook. "I want to feed the world" was one of his favorite lines. When he opened Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Lubbock in 1968, his special blend of barbecue, music, and charisma attracted local and major musicians, and his rickety barbecue shack became the center of Lubbock's live music scene. Stubb's father was a Baptist preacher. After the family moved to Lubbock in the 1930s, Stubb spent his youth picking cotton and working in local hotels and restaurants. In 1947 he married Cleola Ruth Harris; the couple had three children. Stubb spent several years in the United States Army. As a gunner in the all-black Ninety-sixth Field Artillery during the Korean War (1950-53), he was wounded twice. His army career also foreshadowed his later life: he cooked, played music over the field radio to entertain his buddies in the trenches, and supervised food preparation for thousands of soldiers. After being discharged, Stubb returned to Lubbock and bought a small, dilapidated building at 108 East Broadway. He hung signs reading "There Will Be No Bad Talk or Loud Talk in this Place" and loaded the corner jukebox with his favorite music, the blues . He made his own special sauce and, clad in overalls and a cowboy hat, tied a white apron around his 6½-foot frame and smoked chicken, ribs, beef brisket, and sausage in a hickory pit outside the back door. When guitarist Jesse Taylor recognized the potential for a music venue in Stubb's quaint establishment, he talked Stubb into letting him build a stage. To the stage the young West Texas talent came: Taylor, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, and others. Many played their first gigs at Stubb's. Although Stubb couldn't pay them (they played for tips), he nurtured them with kindness and encouragement, along with heaping plates of barbecue and sides and sometimes a bed for the night. Stubb's Bar-B-Q became a musicians' hangout where Sunday night jam sessions became a tradition. The well-known to the unknown, performers of blues, rock , country or folk -all were welcome on Stubb's tiny stage, and all were touched by the generous barbecue chef who espoused love and happiness. Soon, pictures of Stubb and his friends in the music industry decorated the walls. Legend has it that Stevie Ray Vaughan drew inspiration from Stubb's jukebox and later recorded many of the songs he heard there. A pool game in Stubb's back room, in which Tom T. Hall and Joe Ely used a white onion for a cue ball, stimulated Hall to write his song "The Great East Broadway Onion Championship of 1978." Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, George Thorogood, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris were among myriad others who performed at Stubb's. Stubb himself took the microphone occasionally to volunteer his rendition of "Summertime." Stubb's Bar-B-Q drew a diverse crowd until the mid-1980s, when the restaurateur ran into financial problems, shut down his East Broadway location, and followed his West Texas friends to Austin. There he served barbecue at the blues club, Antone 's before opening his own barbecue and live music place at 4001 Interstate 35 North in 1986. In 1989 Stubb closed the Austin location. Later, with business partners, he started to market his sauce and other products, which are now sold nationwide through Stubb's Legendary Kitchen in Austin. On May 27, 1995, the day of his death, Stubb's partners bought the historic building at 801 Red River Street in Austin to continue his barbecue and live music tradition. Stubb died of congestive heart failure and related problems. In 1996 Stubb, who always described himself as "just a cook," became one of the first two inductees into Lubbock's Buddy Holly Terrace, which

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Things to Do in Lubbock

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Buddy Holly Center

Lubbock was a dusty cotton town when a skinny kid named Charles Hardin Holley picked up a guitar in the nineteen fifties and figured out how to make rock and…
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Buddy Holly Center

Museum dedicated to Lubbock's most famous son. The day the music died.
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Ozymandias On The Plains

A pair of giant legs — and nothing else — standing in a Lubbock field. Shelley's poem made real.
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Sports in Lubbock

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Girls Basketball · 2025

Monterey — 2025 UIL 5A Division 2 Girls Basketball State Champions

Most recent: 2025 5A Division 2

Lubbock, Texas, is a city known for its vibrant community and strong high school athletics. Among its respected institutions, Monterey High School stands out for its achievements in girls' basketball. The Lady Plainsmen, competing in Class 5A, have brought significant recognition to their school with a state championship title.

The 2025 5A Division 2 State Championship represents a pinnacle of success for Monterey High School's girls' basketball program. This achievement underscores the dedication and hard work fostered within the team and across the Lubbock sports scene.

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The Monterey High School Lady Plainsmen secured the 2025 5A Division 2 state championship, marking a significant moment in their basketball history.

Sources: UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

Everything Near Lubbock

233 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Terry's Texas Rangers and a One-Day Command

    Thomas Saltus Lubbock, the man this county is named for, helped raise one of the most storied cavalry outfits Texas ever put in the saddle. Along with a man named Benjamin Terry, he recruited the Eighth Texas Cavalry,…

  • Lubbock, TX

    Lubbock rises from the South Plains like a cottonwood after a rain. It's easy to think it just *happened* here, but there's a reason this particular spot became a regional hub. Think about it: endless flat land, perfect…

  • The Hometown Kid Who Changed Rock and Roll

    The name Lubbock honors a nineteenth century Ranger, but the modern name that put this city on the world's radar belongs to a bespectacled kid who grew up right here. Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock on September…

  • The Dryline: the Front You Cannot See

    Out here on the South Plains there is a weather front you will never see on the news the way you see a cold front, because it has no rain and no clouds of its own. It is called the dryline, and it is one of the…

  • The Ranger Behind the Name

    Here is the honest story behind the name on the map. Lubbock is a real, documented namesake. When the Texas Legislature carved out this county on August twenty-first, eighteen seventy-six, they named it for Thomas…

  • Two Brothers, One Name

    Let us clear up something that trips people up. When folks hear the name Lubbock, some of them picture Governor Francis Lubbock, the wartime governor of Texas. But the city and county were named for his brother, Thomas…

  • How the Texas Rangers Actually Began

    The county name here comes from a Texas Ranger, so let us talk about what that title actually meant and how the Rangers got started, because the beginning is humbler than the legend. Back in the summer of eighteen…

  • The Town That Rolled Across a Canyon

    Here is a wild bit of how this city actually came to be. Back in the summer of eighteen ninety, there were not one but two little rival towns squaring off near Yellow House Canyon. One was called Monterey, planted by a…

  • Why the Land Here Is So Flat

    If you have been driving across the country around Lubbock, you have probably noticed the land is almost supernaturally flat and wide, stretching to a straight-line horizon in every direction. There is a real geologic…

  • Terry Allen

    Lubbock gave the world Buddy Holly. It also gave the world Terry Allen — and Terry Allen never once let the place off the hook. In 1979 he came home to cut a record with Lubbock players and called it "Lubbock (on…

  • Amanda Shires

    Growing up in Lubbock, Amanda Shires watched Bobbie Nelson play piano alongside Willie and the band — and then she went and built her own outlaw résumé the bold way. She climbed onstage uninvited at a Billy Joe Shaver…

  • Blue Light Live

    Just off the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock, the Blue Light turned its lights on in 1999 — and it's been minting West Texas songwriters ever since. Wade Bowen played it early. So did Flatland Cavalry, and a young Josh…

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  • Buddy Holly Center

    Out on the West Texas Walk of Fame in Lubbock, there's a bronze man about your size, a Fender slung across him, frozen mid-song. That's Buddy Holly, cast in metal right where he came up. The center behind him lives in…

  • City of Lubbock Cemetery

    The City of Lubbock Cemetery goes back to the late eighteen hundreds and holds better than sixty thousand graves. One of them is Buddy Holly's — Charles Hardin Holley, killed in a plane crash in 1959, brought home to…

  • Lubbock's Pancho Clos

    In Lubbock, Santa comes in a poncho. They call him Pancho Clos — spelled without the a-u-s, so nobody mixes him up with the other fella. It started back in nineteen seventy-one, when three men, Agustin Medina, Jesse…

  • Weather balloons and instrument pods

    Out here in storm country, the science starts before the storm does. Twice a day, from about 100 sites across the country, the National Weather Service floats weather balloons miles into the sky. The instrument hanging…

  • Flying debris, the real tornado threat

    Out here in storm country, the wind itself is rarely what gets you. The real danger is what the wind picks up. A snapped board, a chunk of roof, a fence rail, all of it turns into a high-speed missile. Hit a window and…

  • Hail and tornadoes share a parent storm

    Out here on the High Plains around Lubbock, hail and tornadoes are cousins, born of the same engine. Both grow inside a supercell's tilted updraft, that violent column of rising air. Here's the trick to a giant…

  • A Ranger's Name Under Your Wheels

    So the next time the sign for Lubbock rolls past your window, you will know it is carrying more than a name. It is carrying a Texas Ranger named Thomas Saltus Lubbock, who helped raise Terry's Texas Rangers and held…

  • Lubbock High School · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is a landmark that rose from the plains' booming population in the 1920s. This is Lubbock High School, completed in 1931. Designed in a rich North Italian Romanesque style,…

  • Buddy Holly Center · 0.5 mi · Things to Do

    Lubbock was a dusty cotton town when a skinny kid named Charles Hardin Holley picked up a guitar in the nineteen fifties and figured out how to make rock and…

  • Cactus Theater · 0.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Get ready to tap your toes! The Cactus Theater has been a Lubbock entertainment hub for decades. Originally built as a movie theater in the 1930s, it later fell into disrepair. In 1993, Don Caldwell purchased and…

  • Bacon Home · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Bacon Home, built in 1916 for Warren Bacon, a major business and civic leader in early Lubbock, and his wife Myrta. She was the daughter of a pioneer family here. This two-story brick…

  • Citizens National Bank of Lubbock · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Citizens National Bank of Lubbock, the oldest national bank still operating in the city. It opened its doors way back on May 5, 1906, when Lubbock was just a tiny town of 1,500…

  • Lubbock Women's Club · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the Lubbock Women's Club. It started in 1944 when several women's groups decided to coordinate their community improvement efforts. By 1945, 22 groups had joined, forming the Lubbock…

  • First Methodist Church of Lubbock · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the First Methodist Church of Lubbock. This congregation started in 1892 with circuit rider R.M. Morris and 12 members. They met in the schoolhouse and courthouse until their first…

  • The Night the Sky Fell · 0.7 mi

    On the night of May 11, 1970, Lubbock changed forever. Just after dark, a small tornado touched down, but it was just a warning. Around 9:35 PM, a second, monstrous F5 tornado, a mile wide, tore a path of destruction…

  • Buddy Holly · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    Charles Hardin “Buddy” Holley was born in Lubbock on September 7, 1936, to Ella Pauline (Drake) and Lawrence Odell “L.O.” Holley. The youngest of four children, Buddy grew up in a musical…

  • Buddy Holly Center · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    Lubbock native Charles Hardin Holley (Buddy Holly) pioneered rock and roll before dying in a plane crash at age 22.

  • The 1970 Lubbock Tornado · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    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…

  • The Sound of the South Plains · 0.7 mi

    Before Buddy Holly, popular artists usually sang songs written by others. But here in Lubbock, a lanky teenager decided to do it all. Buddy Holly and his band, The Crickets, wrote their own songs, pioneered new…

  • Engineering the Storm · 0.7 mi

    The 1970 Lubbock tornado was a catastrophe, but it also became a groundbreaking scientific laboratory. In the storm's wake, engineers and meteorologists from Texas Tech University descended on the wreckage. They didn't…

  • Buddy Holly Center · 0.7 mi · Things to Do

    Museum dedicated to Lubbock's most famous son. The day the music died.

  • The Lubbock Lights · 0.7 mi

    Imagine looking up into the night sky over Lubbock and seeing something you can't explain. That's what happened in August and September of 1951. Dozens of credible witnesses, including professors from Texas Tech,…

  • The Fujita Scale · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, the site of a devastating tornado on May 11th, 1970. That storm helped confirm the work of Dr. Tetsuya Fujita, a Japanese scientist who developed the Fujita Scale to measure tornado…

  • Prairie Dog Town · 0.7 mi

    It might seem quirky now, but Lubbock is home to a pioneering conservation effort. Head over to Mackenzie Park and you'll find Prairie Dog Town. In the mid-1930s, when the government's poisoning campaign was sweeping…

  • Lubbock, Colonel T. S. & Texas in the Civil War · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site associated with Colonel T. S. Lubbock, a South Carolinian who came to Texas in 1835. He was an Indian fighter and soldier who served the Confederacy. He was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the…

  • Congressman George Mahon · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the legacy of George Mahon, a West Texas powerhouse who served an incredible 44 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was more than just a congressman; Mahon was instrumental in bringing…

  • Nicolett Hotel · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Nicolett Hotel. In late 1888 and early 1889, Frank E. Wheelock and Rollie Burns, manager and employee, respectively, of the large Ioa Ranch, built the Nicolett Hotel on a high prairie just east of…

  • The Mast House · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Lubbock, and just ahead is a glimpse into the past: the Mast House. Built in 1925 by a top local builder for Dr. Clarence S. Mast, a founding physics professor at Texas Tech. This home shows off…

  • Lubbock County · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Lubbock County. 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…

  • St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church. Early Catholic settlers in Lubbock and on the Texas South Plains celebrated Mass with traveling priests in private homes. Beginning in 1905, Father Joseph Keller…

  • First Baptist Church of Lubbock · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Lubbock's First Baptist Church. Organized way back in 1891, this congregation actually met in the county jail before building their first church in 1901. They grew with the town,…

  • Mackenzie Scout Trail · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through West Texas, following a path etched into history by the Mackenzie Scout Trail. This wasn't just any trail; it was a vital artery connecting Camp Supply in Crosby County to Fort Sumner, New Mexico.…

  • St. John's United Methodist Church · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of St. John's United Methodist Church in Lubbock. It started in 1939, serving Texas Tech faculty and students. Interestingly, the first services were held in a movie theater, the Tech…

  • Texas Tech Alumni Association · 1.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the heart of Texas Tech's connection to its graduates. The very first graduating class in 1927 didn't just leave campus – they immediately formed the Alumni Association to stay connected. From a…

  • Lubbock's First Cotton Gin · 1.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Lubbock's very first cotton gin, which opened in late 1904. Before this, the closest gins were over a hundred miles away, making cotton farming nearly impossible here. This single gin,…

  • New Hope Baptist Church · 1.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the New Hope Baptist Church, a historically African American congregation that organized back in 1926. Originally known as Mount Calvary Baptist, it moved to this area in 1929. Over the…

  • Texas Tech Judging Pavilion · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the old Livestock Judging Pavilion at Texas Tech. Completed in the 1920s, this was one of the first four buildings on campus and the very first designed specifically for agricultural education.…

  • Texas Tech University Dairy Barn · 1.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the historic Texas Tech Dairy Barn, completed in 1927. Designed by Wyatt Hedrick in an unusual Arts and Crafts bungalow style, it was built to house the university's dairy cows. By 1930, this barn…

  • Yellowhouse Canyon · 1.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Yellowhouse Canyon, a place known to Spanish explorers way back in the 1600s. Albert Pike passed through here in 1832 and described it. Look around – this was the site of the last major battle in…

  • Mount Gilead Baptist Church · 1.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, and you're passing the site of Mount Gilead Baptist Church, believed to be the city's oldest black congregation. It all began back in October 1917, with an organizational meeting led by…

  • General Ranald Slidell Mackenzie · 1.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through West Texas, a land shaped by conflict and resilience. Look around, and imagine the vast, unexplored Llano Estacado. In the late 1800s, this was the domain of Native American tribes. But a…

  • Mary & Mac Private School · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of a Lubbock institution that defied segregation and fostered dreams. In 1954, Lucille Graves opened Mary & Mac Private School, a preschool for African-American children, named for a…

  • The Free Range Era of Ranching · 1.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through West Texas, where for a brief, wild time, cattle roamed free. From 1878 to 1885, this was the heart of the Free Range Era of Ranching. After the removal of Native Americans and buffalo, hundreds…

  • Willie Lusk Jr. · 2.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, passing the spot where Willie Lusk Jr. built his legendary custom boot business. Born in 1914, Lusk apprenticed early, learning the craft from a Czech bootmaker. He eventually opened his…

  • Holley, Charles Hardin [Buddy Holly] · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Buddy Holly, rock-and-roll pioneer, was born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas. He was the youngest of four children of Lawrence and Ella (Drake) Holley. His father worked as a tailor and…

  • Cotton Club · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    The Cotton Club was a ballroom, concert arena, and dance hall in Lubbock, Texas. It was a venue for big bands, country and western performers, rock-and-roll artists, and all musicians who fell in between. Beyond being…

  • Stubblefield, Christopher B., Sr. · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Christopher B. Stubblefield, Sr., Lubbock restaurateur and music patron, was born in Navasota, Texas, on March 7, 1931. He was the son of Christopher Columbus and Mary Stubblefield. Stubblefield, known as "C.B.,"…

  • Crickets, The · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, the birthplace of a band that helped define rock and roll: The Crickets. Formed in 1957, this group was the powerhouse behind the legendary Buddy Holly. After Holly's solo career hit a…

  • Buddy Holly Center · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here at 1801 Crickets Avenue stands the Buddy Holly Center. But this isn't just any museum; it's a building with a story all its own. It started life in 1928 as a grand train…

  • Cawthon, Peter Willis · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here in Lubbock, you're passing through the stomping grounds of a legendary football innovator. Peter 'Pete' Cawthon took over Texas Technological College in 1930, and by…

  • Chatman, Joseph Alvin · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that owes a lot to Dr. Joseph Alvin Chatman. Born in Navasota in 1901, Dr. Chatman moved to Lubbock in 1939 and, right here, he established the Chatman Medical and Surgical Clinic…

  • Chuck Wagon Gang · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, maybe near Lubbock, where in 1935, a family of sharecroppers decided to turn their singing into a career. Dave and Carrie Carter, with their nine kids, started auditioning for radio.…

  • Lubbock Lake National Historic and State Archeological Landmark · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving near Lubbock, and right here is a place that holds the story of Texas for over eleven thousand years. Lubbock Lake isn't just a landmark; it's a time capsule. Back in 1950, researchers found burned bone…

  • Lusk, Willie, Jr. · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, Texas, a city that was once home to a bootmaker with a national reputation. Willie Lusk, Jr. was a towering figure, six-foot-six and 260 pounds, who learned his craft from a Czech…

  • Overton, Marvin Cartmell · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here in Lubbock, you're passing through the legacy of Dr. Marvin Cartmell Overton. He arrived in 1901, becoming the very first physician to call this growing community home.…

  • Wade, Franklin Alton · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, Texas, home of Franklin Alton Wade, a geologist and explorer who chased the polar ice. Wade first journeyed to Antarctica in 1933, accompanying Admiral Richard Byrd. He suffered severe…

  • Wheelock, Frank Emerson · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, Texas, a city that owes its very existence to a man named Frank Emerson Wheelock. Originally from New York, Wheelock came west in 1887 to manage the sprawling IOA Ranch. But his real…

  • Yellow House Canyon, Battle of · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, near what is now Lubbock, and you're passing through the site of the last major fight between American Indians and settlers on the High Plains. It was March 18, 1877, during the Staked…

  • Yellow House Draw · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving near Lubbock, and right here is Yellow House Draw. This canyon, carved over millions of years, was a vital landmark for early Texans. In 1877, it became the scene of a wild frontier battle. Forty-six…

  • Davis, Morris Mac [Mac] · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, not far from Lubbock, the hometown of songwriter and performer Mac Davis. He was born Morris Mac Davis in Lubbock on January 21, 1942. Young Mac was inspired to become a singer after…

  • Aguero, Bidal · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, where Bidal Aguero made a huge impact, especially on the Mexican American community. Growing up on a cotton farm, he saw firsthand the struggles of farmworkers. After college, he didn't…

  • Baugh, William Lofton · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that owes a lot to Dr. William Lofton Baugh. He arrived here in 1906, becoming one of the first physicians on the South Plains. Back then, reaching patients meant riding horseback…

  • Bledsoe, William Harrison · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that owes a lot to William Harrison Bledsoe. He wasn't just a lawyer and investor; he was a key player in shaping Texas education. While serving in the Texas House of…

  • Dow, James Lorenzo · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here, you're passing through Lubbock, a town that owes a lot to the vision of James Lorenzo Dow. Dow arrived in 1905, when Lubbock was just a tiny frontier settlement. He…

  • Edwards, Ross · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and you're passing through the life of Ross Edwards, a man who did it all. Born in 1884 near Granbury, Edwards was a merchant, inventor, musician, and even mayor of this city. He started…

  • Graves, Lucille Sugar Barton · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is a place that made history. In 1961, Lucille Graves broke a barrier, becoming the very first African American admitted to study at Texas Tech University. She wasn't just…

  • Griggs, William Frederick [Bill] · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, the hometown of rock-and-roll legend Buddy Holly. But this city is also home to Bill Griggs, a man who dedicated his life to preserving the music and stories of the 1950s. Griggs, born in…

  • Iles, Ella Beth Winn · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here, you're passing through a place that owes a lot to Ella Beth Winn Iles. She arrived in 1922, becoming the first long-term African-American teacher in the city. She started…

  • Posey, Walter Samson · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here, in what's now Floyd County, a young Walter Posey learned the meaning of hard times. Back in 1893, a panic and drought hit his family hard. Thirteen-year-old Walter…

  • Silent Wings Museum · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is the Silent Wings Museum. It's dedicated to the brave World War II glider pilots. These volunteers flew silent, unpowered aircraft deep behind enemy lines, facing a…

  • Teatro Chicano (Lubbock) · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here, in the early 1970s, a powerful voice for the Mexican-American community took the stage. It was the Teatro Chicano, founded by Nephtalí De León. This wasn't just theater;…

  • Talkington, Margaret Weed · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is where a true West Texas style icon got her start. Margaret Talkington, born in Fort Worth, moved to Lubbock after World War II and saw a need. She traveled all the way…

  • Lubbock, TX · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city born from a compromise. Back in 1890, two groups of town promoters, one led by Frank Wheelock and the other by W. E. Rayner, decided to join forces. They abandoned their own…

  • Rath City, TX · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through what was once Rath City, a rough-and-tumble frontier town that sprung up in 1876, right here in Stonewall County. It was a hub for the booming buffalo trade, founded by Charlie C. Rath, who’d seen…

  • March of Faith (Lubbock) · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    The March of Faith took place in Lubbock, Texas, on November 7, 1971, and was planned by several Chicano organizations in the city. The Mexican American activists included Lubbock youth, a Brown Beret chapter, and the…

  • Crump, William Dorsey · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, maybe near Lubbock, and you can thank William Dorsey Crump for helping put it on the map. This Confederate soldier, who rode with John Hunt Morgan and even survived prison camps during…

  • Hubbard, Bess Bigham · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, maybe near Lubbock, and you're passing through the homeland of Bess Bigham Hubbard. Born in Fort Worth in 1896, she didn't start her art career until 1925, as a hobby. But this hobby…

  • Krueger, Julian Thomas · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that owes much of its modern medical reputation to Dr. Julian Thomas Krueger. Arriving here in 1919, he joined the Lubbock Sanitarium and quickly became its chief of surgery.…

  • Mackenzie Park · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is Mackenzie Park. It started back in 1921 with just a swimming pool, but the city had bigger plans. During the Great Depression, the American Legion pushed to develop this…

  • Maedgen, Charles Ernest · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is a place that owes a lot to Charles Ernest Maedgen. He arrived in 1917 and founded the Security State Bank and Trust Company, becoming its first president. During the…

  • Mullican, Clark Marion · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through North Texas, and right here in Ellis County, a young man named Clark Marion Mullican was born. He'd go on to become a decorated soldier in World War I, serving with the 144th Infantry Regiment in…

  • Reese Air Force Base · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving west of Lubbock, and right here is the site of Reese Air Force Base. It started in 1941 as a crucial center for pilot training during World War II. Construction began in August of that year, and by…

  • Stangel, Wenzel Louis · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, home to Texas Tech University. Right here, in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1925</say-as>, Wenzel Stangel joined the very first faculty of this new college. Known as 'Runt' in…

  • Struggs, Edward Cecil · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, Texas, a city that owes a lot to the vision of one man: Edward Cecil "Prof" Struggs. For thirty-five years, starting in 1930, Struggs led the development of African-American schools here.…

  • Ervin, Joan Yvonne Snell · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Joan Yvonne Snell Ervin, community activist, education advocate, and the first African American to serve as a member of the board for the Lubbock Independent School District, was born in Waxahachie, Texas, on April 5,…

  • Furr, Roy K. · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, maybe near Lubbock, and you're passing by the legacy of Roy K. Furr. He started small, buying six grocery stores in Lubbock back in 1929. But he didn't stop there. Furr's chain grew…

  • Griggs, William Clark · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Texas, and right here in Lubbock, William Clark Griggs was born in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1932</say-as>. After serving in the Army and earning his doctorate from Texas Tech, Griggs…

  • Maxey, James Barney · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and you might be passing by a park named after a man who built much of the region. James Barney Maxey, born near Prosper in 1881, started as a carpenter and became a major contractor.…

  • May, Kenneth Alton · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that owes a lot to Kenneth Alton May. Born in Farmersville in 1929, May moved to Lubbock after college and became a journalist for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. He won numerous…

  • Patton, Leroy Thompson · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, Texas, where Leroy Thompson Patton arrived in 1926. He was tasked with building the geology department at the brand new Texas Technical College. Imagine starting with just one professor…

  • Simmons, George Albert · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, Texas, a city that owes a lot to the cotton industry. Right here, George Albert Simmons, a key figure in cottonseed processing, moved in 1930 to manage the Lubbock Cotton Oil Mill. He led…

  • Simmons, Mae D. Thomas · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that recognized the immense contributions of Mae D. Thomas Simmons by naming a community center and a park after her. Simmons dedicated twenty-nine years to educating Lubbock's…

  • Wilson, Roscoe · 2.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock, a city that owes a lot to the vision of Roscoe Wilson. This lawyer and businessman arrived in 1909 and immediately set to work building the community. He helped establish the local bank,…

  • Monterey High School · 2.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Monterey High School in Lubbock. This school opened its doors in 1955, but its name tells a story going back much further. It's named for Monterey, one of the two original townsites that vied to…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Monterey (Lubbock) · 2.5 mi

    Monterey (Lubbock, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Ashton Castillo (4 HR); Lincoln Lamm (4 HR); Dyson Quigley (3 HR).

  • Grading Cotton by Machine · 2.5 mi

    Not all cotton is equal, so before it is sold it gets classed, which means graded for quality. Classers look at a handful of key traits. Staple length is how long the fibers are; longer fibers spin into finer, stronger…

  • The Biggest Cotton Patch in the World · 2.6 mi

    Look out at the flat land around Lubbock and you are looking at what is often called the largest contiguous cotton patch in the world. Contiguous is the key word: it means one huge, unbroken stretch, mile after mile of…

  • Every Cotton Fiber Is a Single Cell · 2.6 mi

    Here is something wild about the cotton growing all around you. A single cotton fiber, the kind that gets spun into your shirt, is actually one single plant cell. Just one. It grows straight out of the coat of the…

  • Farming on a Shrinking Aquifer · 2.6 mi

    Every plant in these fields needs water, and out here most of it comes from underground. Beneath the High Plains lies the Ogallala Aquifer, a vast layer of water-soaked rock and sand that stretches under eight states.…

  • City of Lubbock Cemetery · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the City of Lubbock Cemetery, a place that tells a big story about this city's past. Back in March of 1892, locals got five acres from a rancher for a graveyard. That very same month, the first…

  • Bradford Knapp · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, home of Texas Tech, a university that owes a lot to Bradford Knapp. He was a giant in agricultural education, leading the U.S. Cooperative Extension Service and helping plan food…

  • Lubbock County · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock County, and right here, in Yellow House Canyon, you're passing over one of the oldest human history sites in Texas. For at least 12,000 years, people have called this place home. Imagine…

  • Singer, George Washington · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, maybe near Estacado, and right here in Yellow House Canyon, a lone store once stood. It was 1881 when George Washington Singer, a Quaker merchant, opened his doors. This wasn't just…

  • Monterey, TX (Lubbock County) · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    The brief history of Monterey began in the summer of 1890, when the town was established by W. A. Rayner, a cattleman and town promoter. Rayner had previously organized the town of Rayner to be the county seat of…

  • Buffalo Springs Lake · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving southeast of Lubbock, and right here is Buffalo Springs Lake. In <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1874</say-as>, this was a watering hole for buffalo hunters, and it became a flashpoint when they…

  • Cone, Stephen Elsemere · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here, in what was once Yarrellton, Stephen Cone got his start. He began with bees at age ten, then sold that to pay for college. But when his father died, Cone came home and…

  • IOA Ranch · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lubbock County, heading southeast of the modern city. Right here, in the late 1880s, was the headquarters of the IOA Ranch. This massive operation, owned by businessmen from Iowa and Illinois,…

  • Maines Brothers Band · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Right here in northeastern Lubbock County, you're driving through the heartland of a West Texas musical dynasty: the Maines Brothers Band. It all started in the mid-1950s with brothers Sonny, James, and Wayne, playing…

  • Western Land and Livestock Company · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here in what is now Lubbock County, a huge cattle operation once tried to make its mark. In 1884, the Western Land and Livestock Company, organized in Iowa with a hefty…

  • Acuff, TX · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Acuff is on Farm roads 40 and 789 ten miles east of Lubbock in east central Lubbock County. The town is said to have been named for Michael S. Acuff, who reportedly arrived in the area in February 1891. Other early…

  • Becton, TX · 3.1 mi · Tsha Handbook

    Becton is on the Burlington Northern Railroad just east of Farm Road 400 and twenty-four miles northeast of Lubbock in northeastern Lubbock County. It was first named for W. E. Bledsoe of the Three Circle Ranch, but in…

  • Breedlove Airport · 3.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Breedlove Airport, a crucial World War II training ground right here in Lubbock. In 1943, this field was buzzing with activity, training thousands of cadet pilots for the war effort…

  • Dagley Field · 3.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Dagley Field, a place that helped transform warfare. Back in the late 1930s, America launched the Civilian Pilot Training Program to prepare young men for the skies. Texas Technological…

  • Lubbock Cotton Club · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, where in 1938, the Lubbock Cotton Club opened in a renovated army hut. This massive ballroom, one of the largest in West Texas, hosted big bands like Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys.…

  • Lubbock Lake Landmark · 3.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Imagine a place where mammoths roamed and early humans hunted – that's Lubbock Lake Landmark! For nearly 12000 years, people and animals have been drawn to this area on the Llano Estacado. Archeologists have unearthed…

  • Murfee, Miss Mae · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, and right here is a marker for Miss Mae Murfee, a true pioneer of education in this city. Born in 1888, she started teaching in Lubbock County back in 1905. She didn't just teach; she…

  • Coronado High School · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Coronado High School in Lubbock. This school, opened in 1965, carries the name of a famous explorer. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, guided by a man called 'The Turk', traversed the vast Llano…

  • Site of Old Lubbock · 3.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock County, and right here is the site of Old Lubbock, a town that barely existed! Back in 1890, three rival groups were fighting to establish the county seat. Two of them, led by W.D. Crump…

  • Arnett House · 4.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Arnett House, a beautiful Craftsman-style bungalow built in 1915 as a wedding gift. It later became the home of pioneer rancher and banker Sam C. Arnett. In 1956, the house was donated to Lubbock…

  • Lubbock Christian - 2025 Texas TAPPS Division III state football champion · 4.6 mi · Sports News

    You're near Lubbock Christian High School in Lubbock. Last December, they took down Dallas Christian School thirty-six to thirty to win the Texas TAPPS Division III state football championship. They wear that crown…

  • Isham and Texana Tubbs House · 5.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Isham and Texana Tubbs House, a beautiful example of Queen Anne architecture. Isham Tubbs was a pioneer, serving as one of the first school board trustees and a founding member of Lubbock's First…

  • Bledsoe Santa Fe Depot · 5.4 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past a relic from one of America's last frontiers! Built in 1925 in Cochran County, the Bledsoe Santa Fe Depot wasn't just a stop for trains. It was a community hub. Sheepherders and cowboys would even…

  • Original Lubbock Municipal Airport · 5.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of the original Lubbock Municipal Airport, born from the aviation craze sparked by Charles Lindbergh. Land was purchased in 1929, and by 1930, a stylish Art Deco hangar stood ready. While it…

  • South Plains Army Air Field · 5.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former South Plains Army Air Field near Lubbock. During World War II, this was one of the most prominent sites in the nation for training glider pilots. Opened in October 1942, the field trained…

  • W. G. McMillan Construction Company · 5.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Lubbock, and for the next thirty years, a man named W.G. McMillan shaped this city. He arrived in 1924, just in time to help build the iconic Hotel Lubbock. After that, he stayed and built over…

  • Ozymandias On The Plains · 6.0 mi · Things to Do

    A pair of giant legs — and nothing else — standing in a Lubbock field. Shelley's poem made real.

  • V-8 Ranch · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the V-8 Ranch, a place with roots stretching back to the vast IOA ranch, established in the 1880s. This land saw the collapse of the free-range cattle industry, followed by lawsuits, sheriff's sales,…

  • Carlisle Cemetery · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through the land once owned by W. Augustus 'Uncle Gus' Carlisle. He and his wife settled here in 1890, becoming prominent landowners and contributing to the area's development, even donating land for a…

  • Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park · 8.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park, established in 1963 by George Assiter. It started with ten acres and a vision for individually named gardens, emphasizing a park-like atmosphere with flat markers.…

  • Wolfforth, TX · 9.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Wolfforth, a town that owes its existence to the railroad. It was established in 1916 and named for brothers George and Eastin Wolffarth, early ranchers in this area. But right from the start,…

  • Robert Bruno's Steel House · 10.0 mi

    If you look up at the canyon rim, you might spot something extraordinary. It looks like a four-legged steel spaceship, and it’s one of the most famous works of architecture in Texas. It’s the Steel House, the life’s…

  • Engineering a Lake in the Desert · 10.0 mi

    The very existence of Ransom Canyon as a town is a feat of civil engineering — and it did not go smoothly the first time. The canyon takes its name from cañon de Rescate, the Canyon of Ransom, where Spanish and Anglo…

  • The Town with No Stores · 10.0 mi

    As you drive around Ransom Canyon, you will notice something missing. No gas station. No convenience store. No strip center. It is houses and canyon and water, and that is about it, which means a trip for a gallon of…

  • Ransom Canyon, TX · 10.0 mi

    Ransom Canyon, even though many folks drive into Lubbock for work, has a unique draw. It's not about mass production or some big industry, but more about a certain kind of peaceful living, centered on the lake. The…

  • Wolfforth, TX · 10.2 mi

    Wolfforth's story is intertwined with the land itself, and the grit of the people who worked it. You can still feel that connection walking around – the dry air, a consequence of our altitude on the high plains,…

  • A Lesson in Frenship · 10.4 mi

    A huge part of Wolfforth's identity is its school district: Frenship ISD. So where did that name come from? It isn't a typo and it isn't a family name. Back in 1935 four small rural districts around here - Wolfforth,…

  • Mountains of Cotton · 10.4 mi

    Wolfforth sits in the middle of the biggest cotton patch in the country, and it got here by conversion: this was Spade Ranch grazing land until the 1920s and 30s, when the sod went under the plow and a Panhandle and…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Roosevelt (Lubbock) · 10.4 mi

    Roosevelt (Lubbock, TX) placed on the 3A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Caleb Daniel (0.580 avg, 1 HR); Cameron Vasquez (0.455 avg, 3 HR); Ryan Bradshaw (0.443 avg).

  • What's in a Name? · 10.4 mi

    The men this town is named for spelled it with an A. George C. and Eastin Wolffarth were early ranchers out here on the South Plains — George held county offices and later ran the Citizens National Bank of Lubbock — and…

  • Ransom Canyon · 10.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Ransom Canyon, a place that's seen it all. Spanish explorers might have crossed this very canyon as early as the 1540s. Later, Native Americans like the Jumano, Apache, and Comanche found shelter…

  • New Deal, TX · 10.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving past New Deal, Texas, a town whose very name tells a story. Originally founded in 1909 and named Monroe for a railroad promoter, this small settlement didn't really take off until the late 1920s. By then,…

  • Immanuel Lutheran Church · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Posey. German immigrants formed this congregation in nearby Slaton in 1915, building their own church here in Posey, dedicated in 1920. The chapel was rebuilt…

  • The Town on XIT Land · 10.8 mi

    As you drive the neat, right-angled streets of Shallowater, you are a short way from a legend and standing squarely on the money it made. The XIT was a three-million-acre cattle empire across ten Texas counties, handed…

  • The Shallow Water Secret · 10.8 mi

    The name 'Shallowater' was a sales pitch. When rancher J. C. Bowles and Bob Crump bought land for a townsite here in May 1909, they picked a name that advertised the one thing that mattered on the South Plains: water…

  • Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: New Deal (New Deal) · 10.8 mi

    New Deal (New Deal, TX) placed on the 2A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Lane Proctor (2 HR).

  • The Santa Fe's Creation · 10.8 mi

    Look over at the railroad tracks that still slice through Shallowater. The railroad is the reason the town is here - but the town went and got the railroad, not the other way around. In 1909 a rancher named Jim Bowles,…

  • Reese Air Force Base · 10.9 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the former Reese Air Force Base, a place that trained thousands of pilots during World War II and beyond. Established in 1941 as an Army Air Corps Advanced Flying School, it officially opened in…

  • West, Joe Bob [Sonny] · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, a region that birthed legends like Buddy Holly. But right here, near Shallowater, is where Sonny West got his start. Though not as famous as some, West penned songs that became hits…

  • Shallowater, TX · 10.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Shallowater, a town founded on a bit of clever marketing! Back in 1909, folks like J.C. Bowles wanted a railroad, and they knew how to attract it. They formed the Ripley Townsite Company, and to…

  • Cora Vance and Vance Hatchery · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the site of Vance Hatchery, a business built by Cora Vance. Born in 1905, she survived a serious car accident that left her paralyzed, but she bought this farm and started a hatchery with just 400…

  • The Town That Rebranded to Survive the Depression · 11.1 mi

    You're driving through one of the few towns in America whose very name is a relic of the Great Depression. For years this was the Monroe community, named for Monroe G. Abernathy, a local landowner and railroad promoter…

  • The Invisible Ocean Fueling the Cotton Fields · 11.1 mi

    The vast cotton fields surrounding New Deal seem impossible in this semi-arid climate, which gets only about 20 inches of rain a year. The secret isn't in the sky; it's in the ground. Beneath this entire region lies the…

  • New Deal, TX · 11.1 mi

    Originally known as Monroe, the town was named after a local landowner, Monroe G. Abernathy. It was developed as a train station loading site, and people began to settle there, building the town alongside the railroad…

  • New Deal · 11.1 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past New Deal. 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…

  • Shallowater, TX · 11.3 mi

    Shallowater, a town where the air's thin and dry at over three thousand feet, might seem like just another dot on the West Texas map. But if you listen close, you can hear echoes of Friday night lights and the roar of a…

  • The Engineering of the Modern Cotton Gin · 11.3 mi

    When you think of a cotton gin, you might picture Eli Whitney’s simple invention. But the massive industrial facilities you see on the edge of Idalou are marvels of modern agricultural engineering. These gins are where…

  • A Town Built by Blueprint · 11.3 mi

    Idalou is a town that was drawn before it was built. As you drive its orderly grid, you are looking at a plat laid down around a railroad. In 1911 the South Plains and Santa Fe Railway pushed its line east from Lubbock…

  • Idalou, TX · 11.5 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Idalou, a town born from a railroad line. Back in 1911, the South Plains and Santa Fe Railway pushed its tracks through this area, and a small depot sprung up right here. The name itself is a bit…

  • Idalou, TX · 11.7 mi

    Idalou, Texas, it's a place where the land stretches out forever, almost a painting in browns and blues under that big Texas sky. You can feel the peace out here, see it in the friendly waves you get driving down the…

  • The Nineteen Thirty Seven Road From Texline to Orange · 11.7 mi

    On May eighteenth, nineteen thirty seven, a Texas highway minute order gave the name Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Highway to a chain of roads. The route started at the New Mexico state line at Texline and ran to…

  • The Highway Commissioner's Interstate · 12.1 mi

    Interstate Twenty Seven between Lubbock and Amarillo is the Marshall Formby Memorial Highway, named for a man who once chaired the Texas Highway Commission. Marshall Formby was born in nineteen eleven and moved with his…

  • Two Generations of Maines Brothers Near Acuff · 12.5 mi

    The Maines Brothers Band Highway honors a West Texas musical family, and northeastern Lubbock County is where it started. In the mid nineteen fifties, brothers Sonny, James, and Wayne Maines lived near Acuff and began…

  • Idalou Cemetery · 13.8 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Idalou Cemetery, established in 1920 when John and Mary Turner deeded two acres for burials. Their infant nephew was the first interred, followed by other early community members. The cemetery grew…

  • Trooper Jerry Don Davis Memorial Highway · 13.9 mi · Historical Marker

    Honors TX DPS Trooper Jerry Don Davis, killed October 5, 1980, during a traffic stop on US-84 in Lubbock County near Slaton. His mother continues to fight the killer's parole bids.

  • Englewood Cemetery · 14.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Englewood Cemetery. Representing the Santa Fe Railroad, W.B. Storey, Jr. bought the future townsite of Slaton on April 15, 1911. The railroad's plans included a roundhouse, switch lines, depot and…

  • Slaton, TX · 14.9 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Slaton, a town born from a railroad dream. Right here, in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1911</say-as>, the Santa Fe Railroad sent a man to lay out a brand new townsite. They even…

  • The Harvey Girls of Slaton · 15.2 mi

    If you see the beautifully restored brick building near the tracks, you're looking at the Slaton Harvey House, a living piece of railroad history. From 1912 to 1942, this was a combination hotel and dining room run by…

  • Slaton's Rolling Stone · 15.2 mi

    The gritty, soulful saxophone you hear on the Rolling Stones' classic 'Brown Sugar' has its roots right here in Slaton, Texas. Bobby Keys, one of the most famous sax players in rock history, was born in Slaton in 1943.…

  • Engineering a Town on the Plains · 15.2 mi

    Slaton is a marvel of early 20th-century industrial engineering. The Santa Fe Railway didn't just run a track through here; in 1911 it bought the townsite outright, opened the town that June, and laid out a whole…

  • The Heart of the Railroad · 15.2 mi

    Imagine a massive, circular building with over 20 stalls, each big enough to hold a steam locomotive. That was the Slaton Roundhouse, the heart of this town for half a century. Slaton was a 'division point,' which meant…

  • Slaton, TX · 15.2 mi

    Slaton sits high on the plains, a place where you can see forever, especially at sunset. It might look like any other small town in West Texas, but it's got a story etched into its soil and sung in its music.

  • A Century of Cookies · 15.2 mi

    In a town defined by the boom and bust of the railroad, one institution has been a sweet, steady presence for a century: the Slaton Bakery. Founded in the 1920s, it has passed through just a few families, each one…

  • All He Ever Wanted to Be Was a Trooper · 15.2 mi · Historical Marker

    U.S. Highway Eighty Four in Lubbock County, from the north edge of Slaton to County Road Thirty Six Hundred, is the Trooper Jerry Don Davis Memorial Highway. On October fifth, nineteen eighty, Davis stopped a car for…

  • Mercy Hospital · 15.2 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Mercy Hospital. For more than 50 years, Mercy Hospital served the health needs of the Slaton community. In 1927, Msgr. Thomas D. O'Brien, then rector of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, joined with a…

  • Rockwell Lumber Company Office Building · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're cruising through Slaton, and right here is the old Rockwell Lumber Company office building. Back in 1911, Rockwell Brothers bought land from the railroad to set up a lumberyard for this brand new town. They built…

  • Slaton · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Slaton, a town born from the iron horse! Its story starts in 1911 with the Santa Fe Railroad. Lubbock businessman O. L. Slaton helped secure the right-of-way, and the new town laid out that year was…

  • Slaton Bakery · 15.5 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past the Slaton Bakery, a community institution that's been serving up treats since 1921. It consolidated under the Slaton Bakery name in 1923, and the Wilson family took over in 1943, even overcoming…

  • Slaton Harvey House · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Slaton, and right here is the historic Slaton Harvey House. This wasn't just a train stop; it was a hub of activity! Built in 1912 by the Santa Fe Railway, it was part of the famous Fred Harvey…

  • Slaton Volunteer Fire Department · 15.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving through Slaton, and right here is the site of the Slaton Volunteer Fire Department. Back in 1919, long before fancy trucks, residents formed a bucket brigade to fight fires. Alex DeLong led the charge,…

  • Triumph Missionary Baptist Church · 16.6 mi · Historical Marker

    You're driving past Triumph Missionary Baptist Church. In the late 1920s in the house of &#x201C;Sister&#x201D; Mecca Davis, Triumph Missionary Baptist Church organized as the second historically African American church…

  • Abernathy, Mollie D. Wylie · 17.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, and right here, in what is now Lubbock County, Mollie Jarrott Abernathy made her mark. In 1901, she and twenty-three other families staked claims on a vast, empty stretch of land,…

  • Abernathy, TX · 17.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Abernathy, a town that owes its existence to a railroad line built back in 1909. <break time="400ms"/> The South Plains Investment Company founded this place, even moving buildings from a nearby…

  • New Home Leopards — 2A DI State Champions 2026 (Bransen Beckham MVP) · 17.5 mi

    New Home High School (New Home, TX — Lynn County, south of Lubbock) won the 2026 UIL Class 2A Division I state baseball championship. Third baseman Bransen Beckham was named the championship MVP, going 3-for-3 with a…

  • Texas HS Baseball Playoff Hits 2026: New Home (New Home) · 17.5 mi

    New Home, TX placed on the Texas high school baseball PLAYOFF HITS leaderboard for the 2026 postseason: Hunter Burrell (20 hits, #1 in TX); Tucker Cotton (17 hits, #8 in TX); Ryder Starkey (16 hits, #15 in TX).

  • Texas HS Baseball Playoff Leaders 2026: New Home (New Home) · 17.5 mi

    New Home, TX placed on the 2026 Texas high school baseball PLAYOFF leaderboards (H=hits, HR=home runs, RBI, R=runs, SB=steals, K=strikeouts, H/IP=hits per inning): Hunter Burrell — 20 H (#1), 16 R (#11), 13 RBI (#14);…

  • Balch, Arthur Chester [Ace Ball] · 17.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through Lynn County, Texas, the birthplace of Arthur Chester Balch, better known as 'Ace Ball.' Born in 1922 in the New Home community, Ace Ball became a country musician, stage entertainer, and a…

  • Ramsey, Kenneth Melvin [Buck] · 17.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

    You're driving through West Texas, maybe near New Home, where Buck Ramsey was born in 1938. He grew up with perfect pitch, even used as a tuning fork in school! Ramsey lived the cowboy life until a riding accident left…

  • Struve Family Businesses · 17.6 mi · Historical Marker

    As you drive through Abernathy, keep an eye out for the legacy of the Struve family. Fritz Struve arrived here in 1912, just three years after the town was founded, and opened a grocery store. His brother Ben joined him…

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