Garza County

The family's best-known member was José Antonio de la Garza, born in San Antonio on May 31, 1776. With the Spanish governor's permission he became the first person to coin money in Texas: small coins worth about a nickel, marked "JAG" and 1818 on one side and a single star on the other, which one writer suggests may have inspired the Lone Star. A Mexican grant of two leagues in 1824 made him one of the largest landowners in Bexar County, and about 1834 he bought Mission San Francisco de la Espada. The county was formed in 1876.

What the plaque says

Garza County Named in honor of The Garza family natives of the Canary Islands. Pioneer settlers of San Antonio in 1731. A cattle raising county since its settlement, agricultural since 1910. Textile mills established in 1912. Post, the county seat. 1965

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garza County Historical Museum — 0.7 mi
  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

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