Monterey High School

Rayner had already founded Rayner as Stonewall County's seat. By July 1890 he and three associates, W. D. Crump, H. M. Bandy and D. F. Goss, had chosen a site on the north side of Yellow House Canyon, but Rayner insisted on the south side, betting trade routes and a railroad would reach it more easily. The group split, and he founded Monterey, also called South Town or Ray Town, on August 6, 1890. At the merger it had fifty people and thirty-two buildings, just north of the present Texas Tech campus.

What the plaque says

Monterey High School Opened in 1955. Named for town of Monterey, one of the two original townsites for Lubbock. It was founded in present northwest Lubbock by W. E. Rayner in 1890. In a unique compromise in 1891, Rayner joined the promoters of the other townsite to establish Lubbock in its present location. 1969

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Ranching Heritage Center — 2.7 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.
• Buddy Holly Center — 3.1 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 — 4.1 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.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark — 4.9 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.

More markers nearby

• Dagley Field — 1.7 mi
• Coronado High School — 2.0 mi
• Texas Tech Alumni Association — 2.1 mi
• Texas Tech Judging Pavilion — 2.2 mi