Old Post High School

The school went up near a high point for the town: Post had about 3,400 people in 1928. Hard years followed. Garza County lived through the Depression and the Dust Bowl, cotton production dropped sharply and many farmers left their land, so that by 1940 the county had 721 farms and cotton on only about 35,000 acres, against more than 51,100 acres in 1929. Oil, first found in the county in 1926, softened the worst of it. Post fell to about 2,000 people by 1940 and did not climb back to 3,100 until the 1950s.

What the plaque says

Old Post High School Built 1928, incorporating in lower walls native Garza County stones from the town's first (1909) school, erected soon after the founding of city of Post. This historic preservation occurred under leadership of Supt. John E. Watson, outstanding educator, veteran of World War I service in the heroic Rainbow Division. The Parent-Teachers' Association backed Watson's stand, and bond issue passed in spite of adverse circumstances. When later growth called for a larger educational complex, to meet community needs, this became Post Junior High School. 1968

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garza County Historical Museum — 0.2 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

• Mrs. Merriweather Post — steps away
• Charles W. Post — steps away
• Garza County — 0.5 mi
• Postex Cotton Mill — 0.6 mi