Postex Cotton Mill
Post, Garza County, Texas
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Founded in 1912 by C. W. Post to provide a cotton market and employment for local people. First to combine all the processes from ginned cotton to finished products. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1962
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Cereal magnate C. W. Post founded this cotton mill in 1912 to give the people of his planned West Texas town a market for their crop and steady work close to home. Ambitiously, it was designed to carry cotton through every stage under one roof—from ginned fiber all the way to finished goods—a rare feat of vertical integration for its time.
Why it matters
It embodies the era's faith in industrial efficiency and in company-built towns as engines of opportunity on the Texas plains.
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