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[Simonton School]

Description: Photograph of a two story brick building with stucco, a flat roof with tile on the parapet, tile on two porticos each with pitch roof at arched openings. Windows are 6/6, and the metal tube fire escape still intact at rear of building. The school's address is 34935 Fm 1093.
Date: 1926
Creator: Glover, L. A.
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Four Women on Cart]

Description: 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
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Kinch Hiller Home 2]

Description: Photograph of a two story building. The Kinch Hiller 16 room home at the south end of 3rd Street. The Kinch Hiller was purchased and used as the first hospital in Rosenberg until the 1940's - then it was bought by Triska for a funeral home. The building wasn't used and torn down.
Date: unknown
Creator: Rosenberg Development Company
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Simonton Colored School 2]

Description: Photograph of a one story frame with pitch roof and attached porch supported by 4 x 4's with two entry doors. This building was built during the agricultural boom in the Simonton area in the early 20th century for black students as part of the segregated school system.
Date: 1920
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Pearson-Winston House 4]

Description: Photograph of a one story frame with pitch roof, inset porch with gable front, cut work barge board, porch supported by square columns with balustrade. Transom over the door. Windows are 2/2. Col. P. E. Pearson, civil war veteran and lawyer whose firm has practiced in Richmond for over 100 years moved this house to this house to this site in 1869 to be next door to his widowed mother. T. B. Winston, descendant of Jane Long lived at the same house from 1931-1961.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hinds, Dorothy
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Sugar Cane on Train]

Description: Photograph of open air train cars full of sugar cane. Two men sit in the last cart on top of the sugar cane. A note in the right lower corner of the photograph adds, "Cartloads of sweetness."
Date: unknown
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Eagle Cafe 3]

Description: Photograph of the Eagle Cafe, owned by Syl and Carl Turicchi. Apartments are upstairs, Bill Allison's garage is behind it. The Eagle Cafe moved to the corner of 3rd and Avenue H while Donly C and P Tailors moved in, now Arrendo's Used Furniture as of 1993-11-01.
Date: unknown
Creator: Turicchi, Syl & Turicchi, Carl
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Rear View of Concord School]

Description: Photograph of the first school in Fairchilds, five miles from Needville, Texas. From 1930 to 1931, that teacher was Henry Ripple. From 1931 to 1934, it was Mrs. Anna McGar. The last teacher was Hermina Lehmann from 1934 to the school's closure in 1937.
Date: 1930
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries

[Avenue G. Commercial Buildings 4]

Description: 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… more
Date: 1900
Creator: Vogelsang, Louis
Partner: Fort Bend County Libraries
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