Alongside the Clovis Highway and underneath Loop 289 on the northern edge of Lubbock, is a 336-acre archaeological and natural history preserve.
Lubbock Lake Landmark is a National Historic Landmark, a State Archeological Landmark, and an item on the National Register of Historic Places. It is run by the Museum of Texas Tech University and operates with the goal of understanding what the Southern High Plains looked like before European settlement came to the region, while not disturbing archeological evidence of human life from almost 12,000 years ago.
The archeological importance of the land was discovered in 1936, when the city tried to rejuvenate the underground springs…