Question: Which Texas town owes its beginnings to a breakfast cereal tycoon?
Answer: Post, the county seat of Garza County. In 1906, C. W. Post purchased 200,000 acres of ranch land and established the Double U Company to develop the town, which was founded as Post City the following year. It was incorporated as Post in 1914, the year C. W. Post died.
In 1980, paleontologists from Texas Tech University identified fossils unearthed near Post as a previously undiscovered genus of large reptiles, which was given the name Postosuchus, meaning “Crocodile from Post.”
