Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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omeihl n 9 LEGENDARY LUBBOCK COUNTY CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL A single car drives through busy downtown Lubbock in the early 1900s. (Photo from Southwest Collection) efore there wai ZJexai ZJecn, there wai oLubboch Countu, and the uniueriitu d home iweet home celeoratea its 100th anniveriaru in 1991. llilovement of the peopte into the unoccupied territories of UVeit exas during the 1880i and 1890a marhed the advance of the farm.eri frontier, and 1890 ii recognized ai the date for the cioiing of the frontier in the lylnited J! tatei. Uhe process of settling up the area led to the creation of countu governments in West ZJexas. ZJhe ZJexaS Constitution of 1876 gave the legislature the power to divide the .... ..i;il j]iiini:.!,.ii :.....i;.;ii ,nji;i,.:i]l, „ l!L ' l.ili:l!lL.?7JTlCrfg!Sl!r :i:i::[i;;r:.ji:iiit::iir.;i:j: ' :;. ' ' ' : . .l-j -., Something Legendary J .

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19 9 1 Some twenty thousand gather at the laying of the Administration Building cornerstone on Nov. 11, 1924. (Photo from Southwest Collection) Texas Tech University Lubbock. Texas 79409 Volume 66 Student Life 12 Sports 66 Spirit Service 108 Academics 162 Greeks 246 Housing 312 People 332 Index 436

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Seated in the middle, Tom Lubbock f i J f U ,t ' 1 ,- c i • , HI ' I hh k f 1 ft ■ 1882 unpopulated area of VUeit exad into d4 county uniti acroii (Photo from Southwest Collection) ,1 D I Q il Hl ■ • I ii i I the f- anhanale ana outn [- laini in advance of iettCement bu people into the area. J ucn geoqrapnical uniti created out of unoccupied territories would be without local governnienti until the area had enouah population to organize, and for adminiitrative and iudiciai purpoieS were attached to the moit convenient existing countu. fter the 1876 Constitution wai adopted, the rJLegiiiature created a group of unorganized counties, natning them after signers of the ZJexaS Ujeclaration ol independence and miiitaru and ZJexaS heroes. rJ-ubboch Countu was named after SJhotnaS .J altuS rJLubboch, a Civil lAJar hero who died Aan. 9, 1862, and gained recognition in the first lAJattie of iJSuil Kun. rsLubboch was born in 1817 in Charleston, -J.C and came to ZJexaS in 1835 with the I lew Orleans Cjraus, the first volunteer unit from the United Z tates to fight in the ZJexas devolution. ZJhomaS brother, ZJrancis oLubboch, Served as ZJexaS governor from 1861-1863. ZJhe West ZJexas countu names were penciled onto a map at random b a clerh in Austin. ZJhe geographical location of oLubboch County was randomig Selected during the time period. The Lubbock Mercantile Co. taken in the early 1900s. (Photo from Southwest Collection) Dr iQoods a- Bl Notions I GROCERIES First National Bank taken in the early 1900s. (Photo from Southwest Collection) - r p ji wn „, ; r v? » ia w. ZIL