What is the history of Lubbock, Texas?
The county of Lubbock was founded in 1876, named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, a Confederate States of AmericaConfederate colonel and founder of the Texas Rangers, but the town of Lubbock was not founded until 1890, when it was formed from a unique merger arrangement between two smaller towns, “Old Lubbock” and Monterey. The terms of the compromise included keeping the Lubbock name but the Monterey townsite, so the previous Old Lubbock residents relocated South to the Monterey location, including putting Old Lubbock’s Nicolette Hotel on rollers and pulling it across a canyon to its new home. (Monterey would later become the name of one of Lubbock’s high schools.) In 1891 Lubbock became the county seat and in 1909 was reincorporated as a city. Texas Technological College was founded in 1923, later renamed Texas Tech University. Its medical school, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, was added in 1970. In August 1951, a v-shaped formation of lights was seen over the city. Th
