{"id":23771,"date":"2025-10-28T00:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23771\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:42:23","slug":"from-visionary-colony-to-oil-driven-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23771\/","title":{"rendered":"From Visionary Colony to Oil-Driven Small Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone familiar with Lubbock and even most of West Texas has driven through the City of Post<\/a> at least once. The dead giveaway when approaching the city is the strong smell of crude oil as the rigs work non-stop along the road. Yummm.<\/p>\n

Welcome to Post, Texas<\/p>\n

Located just 40 minutes southeast of Lubbock serving as the crossroads of US 84 and 380, the City of Post was founded <\/a>back in 1907 after the previous landowner sold it.<\/p>\n

Who did the ranch owner sell it to? Well, just a small breakfast cereal connoisseur by the name of C.W. Post<\/a>, who went on to have one of the most iconic and recognizable names in the cereal market.<\/p>\n

Post wasn’t always the name, however. It used to be called “Post City” until 1914. Get this, alcohol and brothels were banned when the city was first established, relying mostly on the cotton gins and textile plants for revenue.<\/p>\n

Slowly, the city grew to include a school, a bank, and even their very own newspaper\u2014The Post City Post, (clever… I guess).<\/p>\n

Post Tries to Play God<\/p>\n

Another odd fact from Post’s history<\/a> is that, around 1912, the city attempted rainmaking experiments. They did this by detonating timed explosives in the atmosphere to induce rainfall.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, this didn’t actually work. Who woulda known?<\/p>\n

In 1916, with a combined total pledge of over $100,000 (nearly $3 million in today’s economy), the city tried to become the site of a West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, which also failed.<\/p>\n

Post Oil Industry<\/p>\n

Thanks to the city’s oil industry which is still very much active to this day, the population boomed in the early 1960s of a whopping 4,800 in 1964. Unfortunately, Post’s population has\u00a0not exploded since then.<\/p>\n

As of 2024, the population<\/a> sits at roughly 2,600.<\/p>\n

10 ‘Old Sayings’ That Still Help Predict Texas Weather<\/p>\n

Texans love a good wives-tale, and I know for a fact many of us have heard many about weather predicting. But when it comes down to it, are any of them based in fact? Turns out, some are:<\/p>\n

Texas Inmates Stitch Love and Redemption Behind Bars<\/p>\n

Inside the William P. Hobby Unit, inmates are learning new skills and giving back by sewing handmade quilts for children in Texas foster care.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Lori Crofford<\/p>\n

15 Famous Graves in Texas<\/p>\n

For many fans, visiting these graves is about paying respects. It’s a unique way to feel a real, tangible connection to the legends of our culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anyone familiar with Lubbock and even most of West Texas has driven through the City of Post at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,2630],"class_list":["post-23771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}