Post

In 1916 the Post estate pledged $75,000 and the town raised $35,000 more in a bid to win the proposed West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, the school that became Texas Tech; Post lost. Oil shaped the town's later growth. Garza County production began in 1926 but stayed small until the late 1940s, then passed 2.5 million barrels in 1948 and 5.5 million in 1956, and by 1991 the county had yielded more than 250 million barrels. Post reached its largest population, 4,800, in 1964. Its newspaper, the Post Dispatch, dates from 1926.

What the plaque says

Post Founded 1907 by industrialist C. W. Post. Early abundant water supply by windmills above Caprock. Later from White River Lake. Extensive ranching and farming. Postex Cotton Mills, making sheets and pillowcases, furnish year-round employment. Service center for over 1,750 oil wells in county. 1967

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garza County Historical Museum — 0.9 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 — 24 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

• Garza County — steps away
• Postex Cotton Mill — 0.5 mi
• Old Post High School — 0.7 mi
• Mrs. Merriweather Post — 0.7 mi