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5 unusual facts about C. W. Post


Close City, Texas

The rare motorist that happens to pass through the remote small town of Close City today may be unaware that, at the turn of the century, the town site was chosen as the original location of Post City, a model community and grand social experiment conceived by C. W. Post, an American breakfast cereal and foods manufacturer.

Hamptons Collegiate Baseball

Shortly after the draft concluded, Peter Budkevics of C. W. Post signed a free agent deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Leila Arboretum

The Leila Arboretum dates back to 1922 when Leila Post Montgomery, widow of breakfast cereal magnate C. W. Post, purchased 72 acres (291,000 m²) of an old country club and donated the land to the City of Battle Creek “to be laid out and improved as a public Arboretum...”.

Post, Texas

Post was originally founded in 1907 as "Post City" as a utopian colonizing venture of Charles William (C. W.) Post, the breakfast cereal manufacturer.

Postum

The caffeine-free beverage was created by Postum Cereal Company founder C. W. Post in 1895 and marketed as a healthful alternative to coffee.


Burnham Hoyt

He practiced as an architect during 1919-1955, and worked during his career as an architect with Denver architects Kidder and Wieger, with New York City architects George Post and Bertram Goodhue, and during 1919-1933 with his Denver-based brother Merrill Hoyt as Hoyt and Hoyt.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

The series is co-produced by The Fred Rogers Company (formerly Family Communications) and Out of the Blue Enterprises, with animation produced in Canada by 9 Story Entertainment and music created at Voodoo Highway Music & Post.

George B. Post

Sarah Bradford Landau, George B. Post, Architect: Picturesque Designer and Determined Realist (1998) inspired the retrospective exhibition at the Society, 1998–99 that reassessed Post's work.

Among those who worked with him were the sculptor Karl Bitter and the painter Elihu Vedder.

Philip S. Post

Post was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1887, until his death before the close of the Fifty-third Congress, in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 1895.

Project Sherwood

Research centered on three plasma confinement designs; the stellarator headed by Lyman Spitzer at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, the toroidal pinch or Perhapsatron led by James Tuck at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the magnetic mirror devices at the Livermore National Laboratory led by Richard F. Post.

Walter A. Post

He was sent to Newport News by his brother-in-law, railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, to build a cargo terminal at the end of the newly built eastern terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway on the Virginia Peninsula.


see also

Garza County Historical Museum

It was considered the finest facility of its kind west of Fort Worth, where C. W. Post, a native of Springfield, Illinois, had lived for a time before his arrival in Post.