Rosenberg Post Office

In the town's first years most residents lived in tents, and there was a store, a saloon and Mrs. Ebell's hotel. The "City of Mud" was incorporated in 1902, with Robert H. McCormick as first mayor and R. T. Mulcahy finishing his term. That year the first telephone was installed, in the Cumings Drug Store, and by 1906 there were enough subscribers, 100, for Pat Roberts to set up a Southwestern Bell switchboard in Kubena's Boot Shop. Floods struck in 1913, 1922, 1929 and 1957, and the town rebuilt each time.

What the plaque says

Rosenberg Post Office This post office was established in 1881, a year after Rosenberg was founded on the newly laid route of the Santa Fe Railroad. Early post office locations include a hotel and a general store. Parcel Post service began in 1913, and by 1928 Rosenberg's Post Office was handling mail from 24 mail trains per day. The U. S. Congress authorized the building of a district post office at 2103 Avenue G in 1939. Home delivery began in 1948. the 1939 structure was expanded and modernized in 1966-67. The history of postal service in Rosenberg reflects the growth and development of the community. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brazos Bend State Park — 17 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• The Menil Collection — 27 mi
  John and Dominique de Menil's free museum in Montrose: a grey-sided Renzo Piano building among bungalows, holding antiquities, Surrealism and art of Oceania under natural light.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — 27 mi
  The oldest art museum in Texas, grown from a 1900 schoolroom art league into a campus of Watkin, Mies van der Rohe and later buildings, with Ima Hogg's Bayou Bend up the bayou.
• Rothko Chapel — 27 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.

More markers nearby

• Fort Bend Telephone Company — steps away
• Robinowitz Brothers — steps away
• First Baptist Church of Rosenberg — 0.3 mi
• Trone-Ray-Lane House — 0.4 mi