Charles W. Post

Post's private life was less orderly than his town plan. He married Ella Letitia Merriweather on November 4, 1874, and they had one daughter; after years apart they divorced in 1904, and on November 7 of that year he married Leila Young of Battle Creek, Michigan. Overwork brought nervous breakdowns in 1885 and 1891, and he recovered with rest and the help of a Christian Science practitioner. In public life he led the American Manufacturers Association and the Citizen's Industrial Association, and he was a bitter opponent of labor unions and an advocate of the open shop.

What the plaque says

Charles W. Post (1854-1914) Internationally known creator of Post Cereals, advertising genius, inventor and innovator, founder of Post City in 1906. Through the purchase of the Curry Comb Ranch and adjacent land approximating 225,000 acres he began his dream of building self-contained model community of towns and farms. Mr. Post financed, supervised and built town without profit to himself. Settlers were offered ownership of business or farm sites far below cost. Mr. Post planned community of debt-free private ownership in every field of endeavor, and sought to make his vision true to its purpose. 1968

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garza County Historical Museum — steps away
  The county museum of Post, C. W. Post's planned town below the Caprock, kept in the stone sanitarium the town opened in 1912 as the best-equipped medical building west of Fort Worth.
• Slaton Harvey House — 23 mi
  A 1912 Santa Fe Harvey House in the railroad town of Slaton, restored as a museum, event hall and five-room inn overlooking a working BNSF yard.

More markers nearby

• Mrs. Merriweather Post — steps away
• Old Post High School — steps away
• Postex Cotton Mill — 0.5 mi
• Garza County — 0.6 mi