Charles William Post, the cereal maker of Battle Creek, Michigan, bought 200,000 acres of ranchland below the Caprock and in 1907 began a model town on it called Post City. His Double U Company built the houses and the Algerita Hotel, planted trees along every street and banned saloons and brothels, then rented and sold farms and town lots to settlers. The railroad arrived in 1910, the town became plain Post when it incorporated in 1914, the year Post died, and the Postex cotton mill that opened in 1913 with 250 workers stayed the main employer for decades.
By 1914 the town also had a sanitarium. It opened in 1912 in a native stone building with tall white columns, a laboratory, an x-ray room, an operating room and twenty-five private rooms, said at the time to be the best-equipped medical facility west of Fort Worth. The building survives intact and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The county museum fills it now: twenty-six rooms of local history, from the fossils under the Caprock to the farm, ranch, mill and family things of the twentieth century. A block away on Main Street, the OS Ranch Museum occupies the 1911 building Post put up for the offices of his land and cattle company.
The closest stops worth working into your route
Roadside plaques and monuments within a short detour