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4th St. at City Hall Dr., Rosenberg,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
29° 32' 50.17160000004",
-95° 48' 23.10796000008"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Founded on a site in original Mexican land grant of early settler Henry Scott, where a small, nameless shipping point existed on the Brazos early as 1830. The Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railroad had tracks here before 1860. Town developed after the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad arrived in 1880, built a station where it crossed the B. B. B. & C., and in 1883 bought and platted a 200-acre site with a central square between the Brazos and the railroad. Town was named for Henry Rosenberg of Galveston, a financial backer and president of G. C. & S. F. Count Joseph telfener, an Italian investor, set up offices here in 1881 to build New York, Texas & Mexican Railway, which extended to Victoria. R. T. Mulcahy, called Father of Rosenberg, arrived in 1883, and for 40 years promoted schools, business, and government. First newspaper, The Silver X-Ray, was founded in 1895. Methodist and Baptist churches were active before 1900 when town was incorporated. In 1912 came city water and electric lights, and chartering of a Boy Scout troop (one of the first in Texas). Oil and sulphur discoveries and highway development after 1920 have made Rosenberg a center of trade and steady growth.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Rosenberg Historical Marker Location Map, Texas
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