Post, Texas Post, Texas Garza County Historical Museum in Post is a restored sanitarium.
Garza County Historical Museum in Post is a restored sanitarium.
Location of Post, Texas Location of Post, Texas Post is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Garza County, Texas, United States. The populace was 5,376 at the 2010 census.
Post is positioned on the edge of the caprock escarpment of the Llano Estacado, the southeastern edge of the Great Plains.
W.) Post, the breakfast cereal manufacturer, who established "Post City" as a utopian colonizing venture in 1907.
Post devised the improve as a model town. He purchased 200,000 acres (810 km2) of ranchland and established the Double U Company to manage the town's construction.
A postal service began in a tent amid the year of Post City's founding, being established (with the name Post) July 18, 1907, with Frank L.
Curtis as first postmaster. Two years later, the town had a school, a bank, and a newspaper, the Post City Post, the same name as the daily in St.
The Garza County paper today is called the Post Dispatch.
The town changed its name to "Post" when it incorporated in 1914, the year of C.
By then, Post had a populace of 1000, 10 retail businesses, a dentist, a physician, a sanitarium, and Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.
From 1910 to 1913, Post experimented with attempts at rainmaking.
Post estate pledged $75,000, and the town raised $35,000 in 1916 to bid unsuccessfully to turn into the site of the proposed West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College.
When the Post interests sold the company in 1945 to Ely and Walker Dry Goods Company of St.
In 1989, Post had two libraries, a hospital, a nursing home, an airport, the Post Dispatch (founded 1926), and 90 businesses.
The 1980 census showed a populace of 3,864, but by 1988, the Texas Almanac reported 4,162.
The former sanitarium in Post is preserved as the Garza County Historical Museum.
Many ranchers and civic boosters live in Garza County, among them Giles Mc - Crary, a former mayor who until his death in 2011 directed the OS Museum, a hybrid of exhibits from both the American West and Asia, which are changed three times per year.
Two baseball fields in Post are titled for former resident Norm Cash.
Post is positioned on the rolling plains at the foot of the Llano Estacado at 33 11 30 N 101 22 50 W (33.191789, -101.380432). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km2), of which, 3.8 square miles (9.8 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.53%) is veiled by water.
According to the Koppen climate classification system, Post has a semiarid climate, BSk on climate maps. In the city, the populace was distributed as 27.5% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The City of Post is served by the Post Independent School District and home to the Post High School Antelopes.
Festivities began with a parade and were followed by the All-School Reunion Dance, which featured the band Thrift Store Cowboys from Post, Texas.
In 1987, the Texas Historical Commission designated Post as a Texas Main Street City.
The Garza Theatre (1920-1957) on Main Street was among the first theaters in West Texas dating back to the age of the silent screen.
Post statue in front of the Garza County Courthouse Algerita Arts Center is homed in a former hotel in the Post Historic District.
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Climate Summary for Post, Texas Municipalities and communities of Garza County, Texas, United States
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