Terrace Cemetery Gateway

Duane's take

Here's my telling of what the official marker says about the Terrace Cemetery Gateway, out in Garza County. Now, when you're driving through this part of West Texas, it pays to look close at the rocks. Because some rocks just sit there, and some rocks have a story in every single one of them.

Back in 1908, a man named C. W. Post, the cereal king himself, founded Post City.

And right from the start, somebody had to build something worthy of marking this place on the map. So here is what happened. From the Double U, the Lazy S, the Conneil, and the Currycomb Ranch canyons, workers went out and collected round rocks.

Round rocks, gathered from the draws and canyon floors of Garza County, hauled in and stacked into gate piers for the Terrace Cemetery Gateway. George Samson designed the gateway. And to build it, he brought in a fellow Scotsman, James Napier.

Two men from Scotland, working together out on the Texas plains, shaping canyon rock into something that would stand long after either of them was gone. And Samson, he didn't just build it and move on. He stayed.

Fifty years, the marker tells us, George Samson was a community leader in this place. Round rocks from four ranch canyons, two Scotsmen, one cereal king, and a gateway that's still standing. That's Post City.

What the marker says

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