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In the town estimated 3, residents and businesses; by the total had almost doubled to 6, residents and businesses. Through the s and the s the growth continued. Rosenberg had a population of 17, in and 21, in In the population was 24, A strong mineral and petroleum industry produces petroleum, sulfur, natural gas and its derivatives, salt, clay, sand, and gravel. Farming and agribusinesses are also important in the local economy. The area produces livestock, cotton, rice, sugar, sorghums, pecans, feed, and some vegetables.

The town provides low site and construction costs, varied transportation facilities, inexpensive fuel, low living costs, good schools, and ample recreational facilities as well as an abundance of historical sites, museums, and memorials. Rosenberg has a daily newspaper, the Fort Bend Herald. Its residents support forty-seven churches of seventeen communions.

There are also two church schools, one Catholic and one Episcopalian. Maidie Y. Our first Mayor did not complete his term because he moved away from Rosenberg in the middle of his term. Fortunately, R. Mulcahy stepped up to fill the unexpired term. In Mulcahy built one of the first homes in Rosenberg.

In , Mr. Eight of Mr. Mulcahy was on the school board for 20 years and was elected the first school board president because of his interest in seeing that children of the pioneer families received a good education.

Soon there were people of German, Czech, Polish and Mexican ancestry flocking to the area. Early plats show the business section located north of the railroad, with stores centered about a public square. But the Brazos River, always subject to flooding, was only five blocks north of the railroad and, as the floods reoccurred, the town moved southward. By the first decade of the twentieth century, the commercial district centered about Main Street now 3rd Street.

Though local agricultural production suffered during the Great Depression, the surrounding cotton growers still supported two large cotton gins in Richmond, and the town also had a large irrigation pumping plant that supplied water to rice fields in the area. Despite the improvements, a traveler passing through the town in the s still thought Richmond's "fine old white frame residences of the plantation type" gave the town "the air of the Deep South.

Beginning in the late s people began moving to the Richmond-Rosenberg area to commute to jobs in Houston, and the trend intensified during and after the s. As a result the town's population grew rapidly, rising from 2, in to 3, by , to 5, by , and to 9, by As Richmond and Rosenberg grew together the towns increasingly cooperated in development and planning projects. By there were 9, people living in Richmond.

The population reached 11, in In , the U. Census stated the population for the City of Richmond to be approximately 11,