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History · Rosalie

Rosalie’s post office opened in 1906, and 53% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1966 on and the census since 1910.

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How Rosalie began

When was Rosalie founded?

1906

The Rosalie post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 147 in 19102020 census: 159120 years
Founding year: the first Rosalie post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Rosalie’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 Rosalie are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Rosalie’s homes were built before 1938.Boom and bustPeaked at 321 in 1920; 159 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rosalie’s history is told.

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The story

How Rosalie came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Rosalie.

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Rosalie was platted in 1906 when the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad was extended to that point.

Rosalie was named for Rosalie La Flesche Farley, a daughter of Joseph La Flesche, the last principal chief of the Omaha tribe selected by traditional means in the nineteenth century, and the only chief of part-European ancestry. After the tribe moved onto the reservation, Rosalie La Flesche became its financial manager, managing grazing leases and other transactions. She married Edward Farley of Bancroft, Nebraska. One of her sisters was the author and activist Susette "Bright Eyes" LaFlesche, who married journalist Thomas Tibbles. Another sister was Susan LaFlesche Picotte, a physician who married a Yankton Sioux man.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

People over time

Rosalie, census by census

0100200300192019401960198020002020Peak: 321

Peaked at 321 in 1920; 159 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Timeline

Rosalie, 1906 to 1966

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1906Post officeThe Rosalie post office opens
  3. 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 321
  4. 1966On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Rosalie, decade by decade

Today17 recent
Rosalie Village Office2025Rosalie Village OfficeRosalie Post Office2025Rosalie Post OfficeRosalie Park2025Rosalie ParkRosalie Park C2025Rosalie Park CRosalie Park B2025Rosalie Park BRosalie Fire Department2025Rosalie Fire DepartmentRosalie Baseball Field2025Rosalie Baseball FieldRosalie Bancroft Panthers pawprint2025Rosalie Bancroft Panthers pawprintOld Rosalie School Gym2025Old Rosalie School GymOld Rosalie Gym side view2025Old Rosalie Gym side viewOld Rosalie Gym back2025Old Rosalie Gym backOld Rosalie Building Bell2025Old Rosalie Building BellOld Rosalie Bank2025Old Rosalie BankFastwyre Internet2025Fastwyre InternetDowntown Rosalie View A2025Downtown Rosalie View ARosalie, Nebraska downtown 22010Rosalie, Nebraska downtown 2Rosalie, Nebraska downtown 12010Rosalie, Nebraska downtown 1
On the map

Rosalie on the map, 1966 to 1986

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

Rosalie on the 1966 USGS mapRosalie on the 1986 USGS map1966Bancroft sheet · 1:24,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Rosalie

Nobody well known was born in Rosalie itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Rodney A. GrantAmerican actor · b. 1959
Duke EriksonAmerican musician, singer, songwriter, screenwr… · b. 1951
Angel De CoraHo-chunk painter and illustrator who taught art… · b. 1871
John J. WhitacreAmerican politician · b. 1860
Howard MitchellAmerican conductor · b. 1911
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Ervin DennisAmerican politician · b. 1936

Questions about Rosalie’s history

What year was Rosalie founded?

The Rosalie post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (17), Wikipedia, 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.