Trone-Ray-Lane House

Henry Scott, on whose league the house stands, came to Austin's colony from Alabama in February 1829 with his wife Martha, called Patsey, and eight children, and four more were born in Texas. He took the oath of Mexican citizenship that December. In April 1831 he received title to a league at a place called Botts Spring on the right bank of the Brazos, surveyed by Horatio Chriesman, with Samuel May Williams attesting to his character. His name is on a Velasco muster roll of June 1832, and he died before August 1835.

What the plaque says

Trone-Ray-Lane House This house is located on the 1824 land grant of one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" colonists, Henry Scott. It was built as a wedding gift in 1909 for rancher-banker Earl R. Trone and his wife. Her parents from Indiana had it constructed of pine and cypress with a granite foundation to withstand hurricanes and floods. In 1925 Taylor and Mattie N. ray bought the house. Taylor Ray served on the first Rosenberg Board of Aldermen and later as mayor. For 24 years he was president of the Rosenberg School Board. The house is now owned by Ray descendants, the Lanes. Incise in base: Restored in 1964 by the family of Milton Ray Lane (1979)

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 — 28 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 — 28 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 — 28 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

• First Baptist Church of Rosenberg — 0.2 mi
• Robinowitz Brothers — 0.4 mi
• Fort Bend Telephone Company — 0.4 mi
• Rosenberg Post Office — 0.4 mi