A Brief History of Lubbock, TX

Lubbock County was founded in 1876 and was named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock who was a Confederate colonel and founder of the Texas Rangers. As eary as 1884, a federal post office named Lubbock was created in Yellowhouse 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 town site, so the previous Old v residents relocated south of the Monterey location, including putting Old Lubbock's Nicolette Hotel on rollers and towing it across a canyon to its new location.