Rose Hill, Harris County, Texas

Rose Hill was settled around 1836 by German immigrant P. W. Rose, the namesake of the area. At the time, it was known as Spring Creek Community, maintaining this name until 1892. In 1846, Johann Heinrich Theis arrived from Galveston and bought land. In 1852, along with some other Germans, he helped found one of the oldest buildings in the area, Salem Lutheran Church, where German-language services were held until the outbreak of World War II. A post office was also founded in the same year and run from Rose Hill until 1905, when mail was routed to nearby Hufsmith. Rose Hill Methodist Church was built in 1876, and a new Gothic building for the church was completed in 1888 and served as the primary place for worship for eighty years. By the 1880s, three general stores, a variety of tradesmen, and seven cotton gins served the inhabitants of Rose Hill, who were mostly cotton farmers. In 1915, there were three hundred people living in Rose Hill, but this number dwindled in the following decades. ==Education==