Coronado High School

Coronado opened as Lubbock was growing faster than its schools. From 1,938 people at incorporation in 1910 the city reached 128,068 by 1960, and between 1940 and 1950 it was the second fastest-growing city in the country, behind only Albuquerque. The Handbook notes that Lubbock had trouble providing enough classrooms; by the late 1980s it had forty elementary schools, eight junior highs and five senior highs. Lubbock Christian College opened in 1957 and became a university in 1987, and the Lubbock State School opened in 1969.

What the plaque says

Coronado High School Opened in 1965. Named for Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, the Spanish explorer who, guided by an Indian known as "The Turk", traversed the Llano Estacado in search of the fabled "city" of Gran Quivira in 1541. The expedition wandered for many days through western Texas, possibly passing the vicinity of Lubbock. 1969

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Ranching Heritage Center — 2.5 mi
  A Texas Tech outdoor museum where ranch houses, barns, windmills and a depot from across the ranching country were moved one by one onto a single park beside the campus.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark — 4.2 mi
  A bend of Yellow House Draw on Lubbock's north edge where digging has found nearly 12,000 years of people on the Southern High Plains, layer on layer, from Clovis to the 1880s.
• Buddy Holly Center — 4.3 mi
  The city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
• American Windmill Museum — 5.4 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.

More markers nearby

• Dagley Field — 0.2 mi
• Monterey High School — 2.0 mi
• Texas Tech Judging Pavilion — 2.5 mi
• The Free Range Era of Ranching — 2.6 mi