Terrace Cemetery Gateway

Post City's first big buildings were stone, and the masons behind the cemetery gateway built much of the new town. White sandstone found by W. E. Alexander while he blasted a trail down the Caprock came from what became Alexander's Quarry. Scottish masons, Samson and James Napier among them, put up the first of the rock buildings, a company block meant to hold eight stores. Later came a restaurant, rooming house, planing mill, office building, paint house and machine shop in the same stone, and a rock and masonry reservoir for the water works.

What the plaque says

Terrace Cemetery Gateway From "Double U", "Lazy S", Conneil and Currycomb Ranch canyons, round rocks were collected and made into gate piers in 1908 when cereal king C. W. Post founded Post City. George Samson designed and with fellow Scotsman James Napier built the gateway. Samson was a community leader 50 years. 1964

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garza County Historical Museum — 1.6 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

• Postex Cotton Mill — 1.0 mi
• Post — 1.4 mi
• Garza County — 1.4 mi
• Charles W. Post — 1.4 mi