This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Early South Plains settlers used improvised Christmas greens
Mrs. Marion Leftwich of the Lubbock Garden Club recalls how early settlers on the South Plains coped with scarce evergreens. Stories recount cowboys buying ribbons for horse-neck decorations and a cedar tree hauled from Hale County in 1883, with community trees common from the 1800s to the 1920s.
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Marion Lattwich
Lubbock Garden Club
Municipal Garden and Arts Center
South Plains
Plains
Mra. Leftwich
Leftwich
Yesteryears
Hale County
Lubbock County
Ave. Q
16Th
Marshall Gray
New Mexico