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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23UH_carlock-building_Lubbock-TX.html
Art deco style office building constructed in 1930 as the new Cotton Exchange Building. Designed by J.B. Davies & Co., Fort Worth, for J.D. Doughty and J.B. Kerby of Weatherford. Now the Carlock Building, it symbolizes the rapid growth of cotton p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BN_bacon-home_Lubbock-TX.html
(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 County fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BM_st-elizabeths-catholic-church_Lubbock-TX.html
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 traveled from Slaton to offer mass for Catholics at the Merrell Hotel. In December 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BK_arnett-house_Lubbock-TX.html
(Two markers identify this Craftsman Style Bungalow.)
Bungalow style house built in 1915 at 1214 Ave. L in downtown Lubbock for Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Higginbotham. Designed by M.L. Waller of Fort Worth. Home of Mr. and Mrs. S.C. Arnett Sr. from 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BE_congressional-medal-of-honor-recipients_Lubbock-TX.html
In 1861, shortly after the first shots of the Civil War, America established the Congressional Medal of Honor. Given for extraordinary valor and sacrifice, it is the highest military decoration presented by the U.S. Government. Three medal recipie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BD_mackenzie-scout-trail_Lubbock-TX.html
This marks one route of the Mackenzie Scout Trail extending from Camp Supply, Crosby County to Fort Sumner, New Mexico and used by the Army, 1872-1875, by buffalo hunters, 1876-1878, and by cattlemen 1878 until the fencing of the range. Erected by…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20A9_forks-of-the-brazos_Lubbock-TX.html
In the summer of 1878, O.W. Williams and E.M. Powell began a survey of Lubbock County. It began at this point where the two forks of the Brazos River meet. They erected a rock mound at the S.W. corner of survey 1, block A. using this as a starting…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20A7_bradford-knapp_Lubbock-TX.html
Known for his leadership in the field of agricultural education, Bradford Knapp served as first director of the U.S. Cooperative Extension Service and helped plan and carry out World War I overseas food production for the Agriculture Department. H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20A1_yellowhouse-canyon_Lubbock-TX.html
Known to Spanish explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries - Described by Albert Pike who visited the region in 1832 - The last battle in Lubbock County between White buffalo hunters and the red men who had called the plains their own occurred on t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM209X_migrant-labor-camps-of-lubbock-county_Lubbock-TX.html
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 Lubbo…