Postex Cotton Mill

The mill stayed with the Post interests until 1945, when they sold it to Ely and Walker Dry Goods Company of St. Louis. By then it was producing six million yards of cloth a year, and its 375 workers made Postex cotton sheets and Garza pillowcases. Ely and Walker sold the plant in 1955 to Burlington Industries, at the time the world's largest textile manufacturer, and by 1973 it employed 450 people. Textiles stayed central to the county: in the early 1980s about 22 percent of Garza County workers held manufacturing jobs.

What the plaque says

Postex Cotton Mill Established 1912 by C. W. Post, creator of Post Cereals and a philanthropist. Mill was a part of Post's dream of diversified income for Garza County farmers and prosperity for town of Post. Mill--one of world's first to process cotton from raw state to finished product--had cotton gin and bleachery plus spinning, weaving and sewing rooms. At first it had 10,000 spindles and 480 broadlooms, employing about 250 workers. "Garza" brand textiles were marketed many years. Since expansion program in 1956, mill works on consignment to companies around the world. (1967)

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

• Garza County — 0.5 mi
• Mrs. Merriweather Post — 0.5 mi
• Charles W. Post — 0.5 mi
• Post — 0.5 mi