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St. Rose’s post office opened in 1893, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 26% of U.S. towns · #99 of 161 in Louisiana. What drives it

Most of St. Rose was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1988. Its Register listing is the LaBranche Plantation Dependency. Below: maps from 1891 on and the census since 1960.

1893first post office
1on the National Register
2%homes built before 1940
5famous people
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Quick answers

How St. Rose began

When was St. Rose founded?

1893

The St. Rose post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Elkinsville (1889), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 1,099 in 19602020 census: 7,504133 years

How historic is St. Rose?

C

More historic than 26% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first St. Rose post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade

What drives St. Rose’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, St. Rose is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns, #99 of 161 in Louisiana. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of St. Rose’s overall grade.
Founding era1893, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19402.2% of homes (±2.0) · typical LA town 3.4% · U.S. 8.4%C−National Register1 listing, 1.3 per 10,000 residents · typical LA town 3.8 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 26%
NewerOlder
Louisiana towns of 2,500+ (161)Ahead of 39%

Louisiana towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Louisiana town has 3.8 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so St. Rose’s 1.3 sits near the middle of its state (44% of Louisiana towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C. The pre-1940 share (±2.0 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about St. Rose’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of St. Rose are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18917 editions of the USGS map, 1891 to 1992. Watch St. Rose change.Lost villages1 post office opened and closed inside today’s St. Rose, and 5 old place names are still on the map.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start St. Rose’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. Rose’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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On the map

St. Rose on the map, 1891 to 1992

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of St. Rose. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

St. Rose on the 1891 USGS mapSt. Rose on the 1932 USGS mapSt. Rose on the 1951 USGS mapSt. Rose on the 1967 USGS mapSt. Rose on the 1972 USGS mapSt. Rose on the 1989 USGS mapSt. Rose on the 1992 USGS map1891Hahnville sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of St. Rose.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Elkinsville, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Elkinsville
1889–1893
Saint Rose
1893–today
18801950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AlmediaCorsoFrellsenRiverland Mobile Home ParkSaint Rose
1cemetery inside St. Rose
Jefferson Memorial Gardens

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How St. Rose came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of St. Rose.

Read it all →

The LaBranche Plantation Dependency House is located in St. Rose. It is a surviving building of the LaBranche Plantation. The main house was the plantation home built by the Zweig family in 1792. The plantation was based on the cultivation and processing of sugar cane and was dependent on slave labor. The big house was destroyed during the Civil War. One of the few buildings left on the property after the Civil War was the dependency house, also called a garçonnière (French for bachelor quarters). The property also has a preserved slave quarters building.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

St. Rose, 1889 to 1999

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Elkinsville post office opens
  3. 1891On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1893Post officeThe Elkinsville post office closes
  5. 1893Post officeThe Saint Rose post office opens
  6. 1894Born hereBeulah Levy Ledner is born here
  7. 20th century
  8. 1915Born hereMargaret Taylor-Burroughs is born here
  9. 1978Born hereEd Reed is born here
  10. 1999Born hereJustin Jefferson is born here
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in St. Rose

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
LaBranche Plantation Dependency
LaBranche Plantation Dependency
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Creole1
LaBranche Plantation DependencyCreole

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

St. Rose, census by census

02,0004,0006,0008,0001960198020002020Peak: 8,122

Between 1,099 and 8,122 people in every census since 1960.

6 censuses, 1960–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on St. Rose’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

5 famous people were born in St. Rose

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Ed ReedAmerican football player, defensive back, safety · b. 1978
Justin JeffersonAmerican football player · b. 1999
M
Margaret Taylor-BurroughsAmerican visual artist · b. 1915
B
Beulah Levy LednerNew Orleans dessert and pastry chef · b. 1894
D
Darius VinnettAmerican football player · b. 1984
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

AmaIts storyDLulingIts storyC−Destrehan2 historic placesC−Kenner3 historic placesC

Questions about St. Rose’s history

What year was St. Rose founded?

The St. Rose post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does St. Rose rank for history?

St. Rose is more historic than 26% of U.S. towns, #99 of 161 in Louisiana. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in St. Rose?

One place: the LaBranche Plantation Dependency (listed 1984).

How old are the homes in St. Rose?

2% of St. Rose’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±2.0 points), against a typical 3.4% for a Louisiana town; the median home was built in 1988.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.