Old Post Office Museum and Art Center

Gustavus and Edwin Graham came from Kentucky after the Civil War, bought 125,000 acres in Young County and in 1872 a saltworks, and laid out a town on the north line of the former Brazos Indian Reservation. Graham won the county seat from Belknap in 1874, and in 1877 the cattlemen who met there organized the association that became the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.

The post office came in the next century. Completed in 1936, it is a one-and-a-half-story cube of buff brick with a cast-stone frieze and cornice carved in a geometric zigzag, decorative light fixtures and ornamental grillwork: Art Moderne, the federal style of the Depression years. It has changed little since. Inside hangs a mural by Alexandre Hogue, the Texas painter known for his images of the Dust Bowl, who painted local-history murals in Houston and Graham under the New Deal art programs.

The building is now a museum and art center. Permanent exhibits cover Young County history, including the post office's own years, and the gallery rotates art shows, local history and traveling exhibitions for families.