Biohazard Cleanup Near West Post Post, TX

Post is the county seat of Garza County and one of the few Texas towns founded by a single industrialist: breakfast-cereal magnate C. W. Post, founder of the Postum Cereal Company and creator of Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties.

In 1906 C. W. Post bought roughly 200,000 acres of the U Lazy S Ranch from John Bunyan Slaughter and in 1907 founded "Post City" as a utopian model town and farming colony, managed by his Double U Company.

The town's first post office opened in a tent on July 18, 1907, and the Santa Fe railroad reached Post City in 1910.

The town shortened its name to Post when it incorporated in 1914 — the same year C. W. Post died.

C. W. Post famously tried to make rain over his drought-prone colony between 1911 and 1914 by setting off aerial dynamite explosions, hoping the concussions would trigger rainfall.

Post sits at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 84 and 380 on the edge of the Caprock Escarpment of the Llano Estacado, about forty miles southeast of Lubbock.

Postex Cotton Mills, established by C. W. Post in 1912 to make sheets and pillowcases, gave the town year-round industrial employment for decades.

The prehistoric Triassic reptile Postosuchus, a large rauisuchian predator, is named after the city of Post, near where its fossils were found.

The Garza County Historical Museum in Post is housed in a restored sanitarium — the first sanitarium in West Texas — dating from the town's earliest years.

Post had 4,790 residents at the 2020 census, close to its all-time high of about 4,800 reached in 1964 during the local oil boom.