The county was organized in 1921; Hockley City won over Ropesville in the county-seat contest. The settlement of the county accelerated during the 1920s, encouraged by the construction of two branches of the Santa Fe Railroad in the early 1920s-one crossing east to west, the other crossing the southeast corner of the county.
An Arrow is a symbol that may mean protection, defense, movement, force, swiftness, sureness, direction and power. The Arrow is also believed to ward off evil spirits if pointed to the left.
An arrow is a graphical symbol such as â or â, used to point or indicate direction, being in its simplest form a line segment with a triangle affixed to one end, and in more complex forms a representation of an actual arrow. The direction indicated by an arrow is the one along the length of the line towards the end capped by a triangle. The typographical symbol developed in the 18th century as an abstraction from arrow projectiles. Its use is comparable to that of the older manicule ...