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[Thompsons Railroad Station]
Photograph of a one story frame with pitch roof, deep eaves with stick style brackets. The framing is slightly peaked over all openings and windows are 9/9. This station is one of the most intact railroad stations in the county. This was the line to Galveston to carry sugar and cotton, later produce. Mr. Thompson was a man who lived in the community for a short period and negotiated with the railroad company to run the line through the community. The company identified the station as Thompsons' switch and the name stuck.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
Santa Fe Railroad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Thompsons Railroad Station 2]
Photograph of a one story frame with pitch roof, deep eaves with stick style brackets. The framing is slightly peaked over all openings and windows are 9/9. This station is one of the most intact railroad stations in the county. This was the line to Galveston to carry sugar and cotton, later produce. Mr. Thompson was a man who lived in the community for a short period and negotiated with the railroad company to run the line through the community. The company identified the station as Thompsons' switch and the name stuck.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
Santa Fe Railroad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Thompsons Railroad Station 3]
Photograph of a one story frame with pitch roof, deep eaves with stick style brackets. The framing is slightly peaked over all openings and windows are 9/9. This station is one of the most intact railroad stations in the county. This was the line to Galveston to carry sugar and cotton, later produce. Mr. Thompson was a man who lived in the community for a short period and negotiated with the railroad company to run the line through the community. The company identified the station as Thompsons' switch and the name stuck.
Date:
1880~
Creator:
Santa Fe Railroad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rosenberg Depot 4]
Photograph of a one story stucco with pitch roof, flat portion at the west facade, steeped facade at east and center of side facades with railroad emblem. "Rosenburg" is carved in the west gable. Carts loaded with boxed goods and men standing beside them lay behind the track of rail in the foreground.
Date:
1890~
Creator:
Southern Pacific & Santa Fe Railroad
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Calhoun Street]
Photograph of a train track running through the middle of a flooded street with rows of buildings, one called the "Horse Saloon," and pedestrians walking along the track. Power lines also run along the left side of the tracks. The street is also called "Railroad Street" at the time the photograph was taken.
Date:
July 4, 1899
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Avenue G. Commercial Buildings]
Photograph of three commercial buildings on Avenue G with the addresses 1903, 1915, and 1919. The buildings are all two story brick with flat roofs. Two have layered frieze of brick, textured design around windows, arched and rectangle. One has arched windows with decorative brick work. One has a false gable facade with textured brick work. These buildings are a good row of commercial brick buildings from the early development of Rosenberg. They are still fairly intact and could form a district with several other significant commercial structures.
Date:
1900
Creator:
Vogelsang, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Avenue G. Commercial Buildings 2]
Photograph of three commercial buildings on Avenue G with the addresses 1903, 1915, and 1919. The buildings are all two story brick with flat roofs. Two have layered frieze of brick, textured design around windows, arched and rectangle. One has arched windows with decorative brick work. One has a false gable facade with textured brick work. These buildings are a good row of commercial brick buildings from the early development of Rosenberg. They are still fairly intact and could form a district with several other significant commercial structures.
Date:
1900
Creator:
Vogelsang, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Avenue G. Commercial Buildings 3]
Photograph of three commercial buildings on Avenue G with the addresses 1903, 1915, and 1919. The buildings are all two story brick with flat roofs. Two have layered frieze of brick, textured design around windows, arched and rectangle. One has arched windows with decorative brick work. One has a false gable facade with textured brick work. These buildings are a good row of commercial brick buildings from the early development of Rosenberg. They are still fairly intact and could form a district with several other significant commercial structures.
Date:
1900
Creator:
Vogelsang, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Avenue G. Commercial Buildings 4]
Photograph of three commercial buildings on Avenue G with the addresses 1903, 1915, and 1919. The buildings are all two story brick with flat roofs. Two have layered frieze of brick, textured design around windows, arched and rectangle. One has arched windows with decorative brick work. One has a false gable facade with textured brick work. These buildings are a good row of commercial brick buildings from the early development of Rosenberg. They are still fairly intact and could form a district with several other significant commercial structures.
Date:
1900
Creator:
Vogelsang, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Avenue G. Commercial Buildings 5]
Photograph of three commercial buildings on Avenue G with the addresses 1903, 1915, and 1919. The buildings are all two story brick with flat roofs. Two have layered frieze of brick, textured design around windows, arched and rectangle. One has arched windows with decorative brick work. One has a false gable facade with textured brick work. These buildings are a good row of commercial brick buildings from the early development of Rosenberg. They are still fairly intact and could form a district with several other significant commercial structures.
Date:
1900
Creator:
Vogelsang, Louis
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Group Baptism by Taylor Ray]
Photograph of several people waist-deep in the Brazos River. The group is of mixed sex, race, and age. Two men conducting the baptism stand in front of the line of people wearing suits, the man on the right is named Taylor Ray.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[McNabb-Holdman House]
Photograph of a small one story house with a covered porch and a woman sitting on the steps. The house sat on the corner of 3rd and Avenue G from 1900 to 1940, when it was demolished. The granddaughters of Carrie Nation lived there briefly.
Date:
1900
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Shawnee Tribe]
Photograph of the Shawnee Native American tribe in Richmond, Texas. 11 young men sit in the front row wearing dark colored sashes over Western attire, the second row is of mixed company in traditional and Western attire.
Date:
May 29, 1905
Creator:
Gordon, W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Shawnee Tribe 2]
Photograph of the Shawnee Native American tribe in Richmond, Texas. 11 young men sit in the front row wearing dark colored sashes over Western attire, the second row is of mixed company in traditional and Western attire.
Date:
May 29, 1905
Creator:
Gordon, W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Shawnee Tribe 3]
Photograph of the Shawnee Native American tribe in Richmond, Texas. 11 young men sit in the front row wearing dark colored sashes over Western attire, the second row is of mixed company in traditional and Western attire.
Date:
May 29, 1905
Creator:
Gordon, W. H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Indiana Town in Rosenberg]
Photograph of a dirt road crossing the rail road tracks to lead through a small, sparsely populated neighborhood.
Date:
1906
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rosenberg West of Union Depot]
Photograph of a series of business buildings, from left to right the Livery Feed Sale Stable, W. E. Cummings Drugs, Tom Coleman Silver King Saloon, Barber Shop, and Mail Pouch Tobacco.
Date:
1906
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Flooded Dirt Road]
Photograph of the dirt road that travels through Rosenberg turned to mud from the rainfall.
Date:
1908
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Brazos River]
Photograph of the river Brazos swollen with rainfall to the point that the shore has moved to the tree tops on the banks of the river.
Date:
May 1, 1908
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Downtown Sugarland]
Photograph of four one story buildings on the right of a dirt road with a line of trees and railroad tracks to the left.
Date:
1909
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Four Women on Cart]
Photograph of four women, three sitting in a wooden cart and one sitting on the horse. An African American man holds the horse by its reins to keep it still. "Sugarland Express" is written in the lower right corner.
Date:
1909
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Harvey House Depot]
Photograph of a two story structure behind train tracks which are parallel to the dirt road where three cars drive by.
Date:
1909
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Barbeque at Rosenberg Bridge Celebration]
Photograph of people gathered at a public barbeque to celebrate the new court house and bridge on the Brazos river.
Date:
February 20, 1909
Creator:
Schlueter, Houston
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fenn House]
Photograph of a one story house with hip roof, attached porch supported by turned columns with jigsaw trim and brackets, simple architecture over windows are 2/2. Built by present owner's father, may be the oldest house in Arcola. It is a good example of a simple frame house built in Fort Bend County in the early 20th century. The Fenns are an old family in the area. Used as shop and residence. The house sits in a small rural community on a very busy highway. Address is 5039 Highway 288.
Date:
1910
Creator:
Fenn, W. J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History