The Trone-Ray-Lane House stands on the 1824 land grant of Henry Scott, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old 300 colonists. It was built in 1909 as a wedding gift for rancher-banker Earl R. Trone and his wife by her parents from Indiana, who had it constructed of pine and cypress with a granite foundation to withstand hurricanes and floods. In 1925 Taylor and Mattie N. Ray bought the house. Taylor Ray served on the first Rosenberg Board of Aldermen, later became mayor, and for 24 years was president of the Rosenberg School Board. The house is owned by Ray descendants, the Lanes, and was restored in 1964 by the family of Milton Ray Lane.