Remembering the Verbena community

If you travel 15 miles northeast of Post, you will enter the community of Verbena. Before Garza County was formed, this community had a church and a growing population. In 1901, Al and Buelah Bird drove through the Spur Ranch to their half dugout to join the Lindsey and Willoughby’s in the Verbena area. Their dugout had an attic with a bedroom. The bottom floor was the kitchen and living room…