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Garza County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,461.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48169.html )〕 Its county seat is Post.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created in 1876 and later organized in 1907. Garza is named for a pioneer Bexar County family, as it was once a part of that county. It is located southeast of Lubbock. A leading civic figure in Garza County was until his death in 2011 Giles McCrary, a rancher, oil developer, investor, and art collector. McCrary's OS Ranch Museum is a popular attraction in the county seat of Post, which has made an extended effort to attract tourism. Republican Drew Springer, Jr., a businessman from Muenster in Cooke County, has since January 2013 represented Garza County in the Texas House of Representatives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=State Rep. Springer announces district tour July 30 )〕 ==History timeline== *2000 b.c. – Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the first inhabitants. Later inhabitants were the Kiowa, Comanche. *1875 W. C. Young of Fort Worth and Illinois Irishman Ben Galbraith establish the beginnings of the Curry Comb Ranch in the northwest part of Garza County. *1876 Garza County is formed from Bexar County, and named for the prominent Bexar County family of José Antonio de la Garza. *1880 County census count is 36 people.〔 *1882 The Square and Compass Ranch is started by the Nave and McCord Cattle Company. They put up the first barbed wire fence two years later. *1884 OS Ranch is founded by brothers Andrew J. Long and Frank M. Long of Lexington, Kentucky. *1900 County population is 185 persons.〔 *1907 Post is founded as a utopian venture by, and named for, cereal king Charles William Post.〔 *1909-1913 C.W. Post builds a cotton gin, a cotton mill, and attempts to improve agriculture production through rainmaking, involving the heavy use of explosives fired from kites and towers along the rim of the Caprock Escarpment.〔 *1926 Oil is discovered in the county.〔 *1934 Quanah and Bryan Maxey discover a sixteen-foot-long tusk of a prehistoric imperial mammoth. This tusk is currently located in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY.〔 *1957 A Prehistoric Indian site at Cowhead Mesa is recorded by Emmet Shedd of Post. *1960-1965 South Plains Archaeological Society excavations of Cowhead Mesa find artifacts to date inhabitation back to 2000 b.c.〔 *1980 The most important business in the county are agribusiness, oil and gas extraction, and textile mills.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Garza County, Texas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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