History:
An Early Garza County Timeline
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- July 31 C.W. Post purchased 47,749 acres from Slaughter Ranch
- Sept. 4 C.W. Post purchased 27,175 acres from O.S. Ranch
- March 23 Double U Co. chartered in Texas. Capital stock $50,000
- May 19 Present site of Post City established
- July 8 Garza County voters choose Post City for County Seat
- Nov. 30 First meeting: Double U Co. Board of Acting Managers
- Dec. 16 Town plat for Post City filed in Garza County
- Dec. 50 houses were up, the Hotel under construction & a stone store building nearly completed.
- Jan. 8 Work begins on new Post-Gail road
- Jan. 16 Nine stonemasons work on Cafe, Hotel & Company Store
- Feb. 10 Town managers request cemetery land from C.W. Post
- Feb. 28 C.W. Post gives cemetery land East of Post City
- June 4 Post decides to erect stone gate at town's East entrance
- July 7 Drought hurts crops on
- Experimental Farm East of Post City
- Aug. 3 Twenty five Plains farms reported in cultivation
- Sept. 1 Excavation begins on 1st new Reservoir
- Sept. 28 First week of hack service between Post City and Snyder via Fluvanna
- Oct. 16 Engineers stake out lines for city water system
- Dec. 26 Grand Cowboy Ball draws 52 couples
- Feb. 6 First 52 trees planted in Post City - landscape project
- Feb. 11 Courthouse Square laid out by Engineering Dept.
- March 28 First domino party held at Hotel
- April 1 Town's women organize sewing circle and literary society
- May 5 County voters approve $15,000 school bond to purchase site & construct building.
- May First National Bank of Post City was established
- July 27 Post City citizens organize two volunteer fire companies
- Aug. 6 First annual Community BBQ
- Jan. 19 First test bales run on new $12,000 Cotton Gin
- Feb. 17 RR delivering freight to Denicon's Camp, 15 miles NW of Post City
- March 10 Baptist Church building begun by church members
- May First preliminary experiments in rainmaking
- Aug. 12 Six masked men assaulted UU Co. official
- Aug. 17 Work started on 2nd Reservoir
- Sept. 5 First Post City POST sold
- Oct. 1 RR lays track from edge of Caprock to Post City
- Dec. 8 Post City receiving freight in carload lots at new rail siding
- Jan. 4 First Saddle Shop opens
- Jan. 14 First passenger train reached Post City
- Feb. 22 UU agrees to passenger car line connecting rail lines @ Post & Fluvanna
- June 3 C.W. issues first details on rainmaking using kites and dynamite
- June 23 Day long rainmaking attempt ends with no rain
- June 30 Rainmaking battle ends with precipitation in the area
- Aug. 27 75 residences, 25 businesses interested in telephones
- Sept. 27 C.W. Post purchases mechanical cotton picker for 1912 crop
- Oct. 29 C.W. Post begins buying cattle for ranch operation
- Nov. 10 C.W. Post, Dr. A.R. Ponton to construct Post Sanitarium
- Feb. 9 UU Company moves into new office building
- Oct. 20 C.W. Post seeks 100 Herefords to pasture on Llano Ranch
- Oct. 21 Llano Ranch named headquarters: C.W. Post cattle operation
- March 13 Work slows, all but 9 carpenters laid off
- April 7 UU Company to farm 1,100 acres of land this year, 250 acres of cotton
- May Postex Cotton Mill opened for operation
- July 12 Local merchants organize monthly Trade Days
- Aug. 5 Post city bypassed on "Post to Plains" Hwy. (US 87)
- Feb. 19 UU Co. survey land for colonization into 1/4 sections
- March 18 First "Missionaries" sent across Texas to sell Post City farms
- May 9 Charles William Post dies suddenly after successful surgery
- July 20 First farm purchasers arrive on the Plains
- Aug. 2 Committee investigates whether to organize Post City government
- Aug. 24 Fifty six farms sold to date
- Oct. 28 Construction okayed for $10,000; First Nat'l Bank building
- Nov. 11 Civic leaders postpone vote for City organization, census; 932