Post

Duane's take

The way the marker tells it, here's the story of Post, Texas, and I'm just the voice passin' it along. Now, out on the Caprock, in Garza County, there is a town that did not happen by accident. Post was founded in 1907 by an industrialist named C.

W. Post. One man.

One vision. One town, planted right there on the high plains. In the early days, the question every settlement on the Caprock had to answer was water.

And Post answered it the old West Texas way, with windmills. Those windmills stood above the Caprock and pulled water up from below, keeping the town alive and growing. Later, the water supply shifted to White River Lake, and the town kept right on going.

What grew up around that water supply was a working, breathing economy. Extensive ranching and farming spread across the land. And if that weren't enough, the Postex Cotton Mills came to town, turning out sheets and pillowcases and furnishing year-round employment to the people of Garza County.

Year-round. That matters in a place where the weather and the seasons can make other kinds of work come and go. And then there's the oil.

Over 1,750 oil wells in the county, and Post serves as the service center for all of them. You think about that the next time you drive through and see the horizon stretching out flat and wide in every direction. Beneath it all, the wells are working, and the town is working right alongside them.

C. W. Post put his name on this place in 1907.

And somewhere along the way, the place earned it.

What the marker says

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