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Levelland
is geographically descriptive of the region.
History in a Pecan Shell
We were told by someone at the chamber of commerce that the city has
no ties whatsoever to Post, Texas,
but according to The Handbook of Texas C. W. Post is the founder
of both towns. Post bought the Oxsheer Ranch in Hockley County in
1906, a year before he founded Post. Oxsheer Ranch was surveyed by
Post in 1912, two years before his death.
Lleveland is also home to South Plains College, located south
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Tumbleweed
in Levelland
Photo courtesy Shannon Prothro |
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"Sunset"
- taken just north of Levelland
Photo courtesy Shannon Prothro
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Levelland
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Levelland
Chamber of Commerce
1101 Ave. "H". 806-894-3157
Website: www.levelland.com
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Texas Forum
Subject:
What Leveland is best known for
Dear TE, Believe it or not, Levelland is probably best known internationally
for the Levelland Sightings of 1957. I have traveled far
and wide from the area where I was raised (graduated from Pettit
H.S, 1953). At the time of the sightings, I had just returned from
a three-year tour in Europe and was staying with my parents awaiting
my discharge from Reese AFB near Lubbock.
They lived on an isolated farm on Oklahoma Flat Road in northern
Hockley County. I saw some things that made my hair stand on end,
some things I never mentioned to my parents.
In my author's biography at the end of my most recent novel, The
Ghost of Mount Chinati I mention my presence during the "sightings."
It is relevant to the theme of the novel. - Walter LeCroy, No
Town Provided, December 01, 2006
Levelland
(my home town) was owned at one time by Mr. Post, however according
to my Grandmother, Mr. Post's daughter is the one who name the town.
- Jeremy L. McCulloch, December 27, 2004
Several
popular country singers including Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks)
and LeeAnn Womack have attended school at South Plains College in
Levelland. They were part of the Country & Bluegrass music department.See
http://www.levelland.com/mus.html for more information or confirmation.
Levelland has nine fine mosaics throughout the city and is known
as a "City of Mosaics." A mosaic is a 6000-year-old art technique
in which cubes of glass tile are fixed in a pattern to make a work
of art. The mosaics in town can be found at the Fine Arts Building,
Student Services Building, and Science-Agriculture Buildings at
South Plains College, Methodist Hospital, Levelland Clinic, Adult
Learning Center, Hockley County Library and the Levelland Area Chamber
of Commerce. - Shannon Prothro, August 30, 2003
High School
Ghosts
"... we went to the janitors for answers.
Their stories started the biggest ghost hunt Levelland has ever
seen."
My name is Adam Wood. I was a senior at Levelland High School in
2001. I was in theater and we were soon going to competition so
we were rehearsing 6 until 9 in the evening. Well as kids do we
started telling ghost stories and before you knew it there were
stories about the school. Someone said that a student had died in
auto-machenics in around '96 so we went to the janitors for answers.
Their stories started the biggest ghost hunt Levelland has ever
seen.
We were told that it was true that a boy had died there. He was
electrocuted; and that someone had died in the gym as well when
the school was being built. They had seen a tall man dressed in
black wondering the halls. A teacher's husband had seen a girl in
the library and then two cheerleaders said they heard the sound
of little feet chasing them in the library one night.
Every night about 9:30 about 15 of us would walk all the way around
the school. No one was there but the 3 janitors and us. We had their
permission to go find anything. We took a video camera and something
happened on the fifth night. We saw nothing. I heard a piano music
but no one else did. When we watched the video we saw a man at the
end of the hallway in a white shirt and the piano music showed up.
It consumed our lives for 2 months and we never saw anything again.
I go back every now and then late at night and walk around but nothing
ever happens. - Adam Wood, May 25, 2002
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