Lubbock, Texas, USA
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Where is Lubbock, Texas, USA? Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado and ecologically is part of the southern end of the Western High Plains.
The county of Lubbock was founded in 1876, named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, former Texas Ranger and brother of Francis R. Lubbock, governor of Texas during the Civil War. As early as 1884, a federal post office named Lubbock existed in Yellow House Canyon. However, 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. In 1891, Lubbock became the county seat and on March 16, 1909, Lubbock was incorporated.Wikipedia
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1916
Lubbock, a banking post-village, capital of Lubbock co., Tex., on the Brazos River, 95 miles...Read MORE...
Lubbock, a banking post-village, capital of Lubbock co., Tex., on the Brazos River, 95 miles...Read MORE...
1926 - Lubbock man Is Killed by Lightning BoltSpecial to The News.
Lubbock, Texas, April 20,- J.H. BURROUGHS, 60 years old, pioneer pure seed...Read MORE...
1930 - May 13 - A man was killed when caught in an open field during a hailstorm northwest of Lubbock TX. It was the first, and perhaps the only, authentic death by hail in U.S. weather records.WeatherForYou.com
May 13, 1930
1981 - June 22 - A young woman from Lubbock, TX, was struck by lightning.The bolt of lightning struck just above her right shoulder near her neck, and passed right to left ...Read MORE...
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Annie KIDD
(2 October 1870, Pulaski, Kentucky, USA - 31 May 1932, Lubbock, Texas, USA)
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