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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
of town on Hwy 385.
Hockley
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Tumbleweed in Levelland
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Levelland
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Chamber of Commerce
1101 Ave. "H". 806-894-3157
Website: www.levelland.com
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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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