The town began under the
name Post City in 1907 as a colonizing venture of cereal manufacturer
Charles William post,
qv who sought to develop a model town. He purchased 200,000 acres of ranchland and established the Double U. Company to
manage the town's construction. The company
built trim houses and numerous
structures, which included the Algerita
Hotel, a gin, and a textile plant. They planted trees
along every
street and prohibited alcoholic beverages and brothels. The Double U. Company rented and sold farms and houses to settlers. A
Post office began in a tent during the year of
post City's
founding. Two years later the town had a school, a
bank, and a newspaper,
the Post City
Post. The
railroad reached the town in 1910. The town changed its
name to
Post when it incorporated in 1914, the year of C. W.
post's
death. By then
POST had a population of 1,000,
ten retail businesses, a dentist, a doctor, a sanitarium, and
Baptist, Methodist, and
Presbyterian churches.
the Post estate pledged $75,000 and the town raised $35,000 in 1916 to
bid unsuccessfully to become the site of the proposed
West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical
College, later known as
Texas Tech University. Postex Cotton
Mills, which began production in 1913 with 250 employees, has remained the town's leading
industry. When
The Post interests sold
the business to
Ely and
Walker Dry Goods Company of St.
Louis in 1945,
the plant was producing
six million yards of cloth a year and employed 375 workers who manufactured Postex cotton
sheets and Garza
pillow cases. Ely and Walker sold Postex in 1955 to
Burlington Industries, the world's largest textile manufacturer at that
time. By 1973 the company employed 450 persons. Oilfield service companies have been important to the
economy, as have farming and ranching. In 1989 Post had two libraries, a hospital, a nursing
home, an
airport, the Post
Dispatch (founded in 1926), and ninety businesses.
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