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Timeline of the history of Lubbock, Texas, United States
The following is a timeline of the
history of the city of
Lubbock ,
Texas , USA.
19th century
20th century
1909
Railroad begins operating.
City of Lubbock incorporated.
[2]
Frank E. Wheelock becomes mayor.
1910 - Population: 1,938.
1913 - Chamber of Commerce formed.
[6]
1914
1917 - Lubbock Sanitarium (hospital)
[1] and Mt. Gilead Baptist Church established.
1920 - Population: 4,051.
1924 - San Jose Catholic Church and Palace Theatre built.
1925
1926 -
Texas Technological College Dairy Barn built.
[7]
[10]
1929 -
West Texas Museum established.
1930
Guadalupe School built.
Population: 20,520.
1931 - Lubbock High School built.
1932 -
KFYO (AM) radio begins broadcasting from Lubbock.
1933
Baptist Church established.
[1]
Texan Theatre in business.
[9]
1936
1937
1940
New Lindsey Theatre built.
[9]
Population: 31,853.
1941 - U.S. Army
Flying School established near city.
1942 - U.S. Army
South Plains Flying School established.
1943-1944 - Royal Air Force airmen cadets flew routinely to Lubbock on training missions from the RAF training base at Terrell, Texas.
[13]
1945 - Chatman Hospital opens.
1946
1949 - U.S. military
Reese Air Force Base active.
1950 - Population: 71,747.
1951
Regional "High Plains Water Conservation District #1" established.
[14]
[15]
Country Club Drive-In cinema in business.
[9]
1952 - KCBD-TV and KDUB-TV (
television ) begin broadcasting.
[16]
1953 -
KDAV radio begins broadcasting.
1957 -
Lubbock Christian College opens.
[1]
1959 -
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper in publication.
[5]
1960 -
Population : 128,691.
[17]
1961 - South Plains Genealogical Society founded.
[18]
1962 - San Jose Catholic Church rebuilt.
1965 - Green Fair Manor apartment building constructed.
1966 - City "
urban renewal relocation housing project" completed.
1969
1970
1977 -
Lubbock Memorial Civic Center built.
1978 - May 19 Bombing at Faith Club Alcoholics Anonymous. Stevie Ray Vaughan played at Stubbs BBQ and AC/DC played at the Municipal Coliseum.
1979 - Lubbock Heritage Society formed.
[22]
1980 -
Population : 173,979.
[17]
1983 -
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock established.
[23]
1990 -
Population : 186,206.
[17]
1998 – City website online (approximate date).
[24] [
chronology citation needed ]
2000 - Population: 199,564.
21st century
See also
References
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"About Lubbock" . City of Lubbock, Texas. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"Historic Lubbock" . Lubbock Heritage Society. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"(Lubbock)" . Texas Archival Resources Online . University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"Texas: West Texas: Lubbock" . Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities . Jackson, Mississippi:
Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life . Retrieved July 30, 2016 .
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AT6 Monument
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"About: History Timeline" . Lubbock, TX: High Plains Water District. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
^ Gregory Curtis (December 1974).
"Lubbock: World's Largest City with No Water" .
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^ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960),
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Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 , US Census Bureau, 1998
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"About Us" . Lubbock, Texas: South Plains Genealogical Society. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"List of the top 10 worst tornadoes in Texas history" . Amarillo, TX:
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"LHS Timeline" . Lubbock Heritage Society. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: USA" . Norway:
Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo . Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"Lubbock Virtual City Government" . Archived from
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GovTrack . Washington, D.C. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"History of City Council Members" . City of Lubbock, Texas. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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"Lubbock city, Texas" . QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved June 30, 2016 .
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Federal Writers' Project (1940),
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Lawrence L. Graves, ed., A History of Lubbock (Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1962)
Charles K. Edgley, W. G. Steglich and Walter J. Cartwright (1968). "Rent Subsidy and Housing Satisfaction: The Case of Urban Renewal in Lubbock, Texas". American Journal of Economics and Sociology . 27 (2): 113–124.
doi :
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1968.tb01032.x .
JSTOR
3485264 .
Lawrence L. Graves, ed., Lubbock: From Town to City (Lubbock: West Texas Museum Association, 1986)
Helen Simons; Cathryn A. Hoyt, eds. (1996). "Lubbock and the Plains".
A Guide to Hispanic Texas (Abridged ed.). University of Texas Press. pp. 287–322.
ISBN
978-0-292-77709-5 .
David J. Wishart , ed. (2004).
"Cities and Towns: Lubbock, Texas" . Encyclopedia of the Great Plains . University of Nebraska Press.
ISBN
0-8032-4787-7 .
Donald R. Abbe; Paul Howard Carlson (2008).
Historic Lubbock County: an Illustrated History . San Antonio: Historical Publishing Network.
ISBN
978-1-893619-90-6 .
Russell Hill (2011).
Lubbock . Arcadia.
ISBN
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Betty Dooley Awbrey; Stuart Awbrey (2013). "Lubbock".
Why Stop?: A Guide to Texas Roadside Historical Markers (6th ed.).
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