Garza County

The county was named for a pioneer Bexar County family of which José Antonio de la Garza was a well-known member. The area’s sandy, loamy, and clay soils support grass, small mesquite, and thorny scrubs and cacti. The development of the county quickly accelerated after 1906, when Charles William Post bought 250,000 acres in Lynn and Garza counties to start an experimental colony. In 1934 archeologists discovered the sixteen-foot-long tusk of a prehistoric imperial mammoth. A type of arrowpoint used by hunters before A.D. 1500 was uncovered in the county during the 1960s and named the Garza point. Among the most outstanding attractions to visitors are the Garza County Museum located in West Texas’ first sanitarium and the OS Museum housed in the first general offices of C.W. Post that exhibits art and artifacts from around the world from the collection of Giles C. McCrary and family.

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