Mattress Store Near Thompsons, TX

From Thompson's Switch to now: a town that has always driven somewhere else to shop

Settlement here began around 1830, when Robert E. Bohannon came to Texas from Alabama on a land grant issued under Stephen F. Austin's colonization contract with the Mexican government. After Bohannon died his widow married Hiram Thompson, who named the community after himself. It became a station on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe line in 1879, was granted a post office in 1888, and for a while was known simply as Thompson's Switch.

The high-water mark came early. By 1896 roughly 300 people lived here, served by a cotton gin, a general store and two saloons. By 1900 the population was 104. Through the 1920s and into the mid-1940s the town reported about seventy-five residents; the Cane Belt Railroad put a second line through in 1930, and by 1940 Thompsons had a school, a cotton gin, a store and two churches. It reported 100 residents in 1947, 73 in 1972, and incorporated in 1979.

So the habit of driving to Richmond or Rosenberg to buy anything substantial is not new here; it is about 130 years old. The practical consequence for a mattress is simply that the trip is worth planning. Come with your room dimensions, the width of the narrowest doorway between the front door and the bedroom, and your partner if you share the bed. Motion separation is the one thing you cannot test alone, and the drive is too long to make twice by accident.

Lamar Consolidated and George Ranch families, and the beds nobody chose

Thompsons is zoned to Lamar Consolidated Independent School District, and its students are zoned to George Ranch High School up toward Richmond. That puts local families on the same roads as our main showroom several times a week already, which is the cheapest way to fit a mattress trip into an ordinary Saturday.

Households out here tend to stay a long time, and in a long-settled house the beds accumulate without anyone ever choosing them. The twin that came with a bunk, the hand-me-down in the guest room, the mattress a child has outgrown without it being noticed: almost none of those were a decision. Moving a child up to a full size is one of the least expensive sleep upgrades a household can make, and it usually buys back more rest than anything else in the room.

Bring the children if you can. Letting a child lie on three mattresses and say which one they prefer is the same test adults get, and it is the difference between a bed that works and an argument every night for the next five years. Parents who care as much about materials as firmness can see and feel organic options from Naturepedic and My Green Mattress on the floor and ask exactly what is inside them.

Guest rooms deserve a sentence too. Out here family comes to stay for a week rather than a night, so a supportive surface at an easy height, with an adjustable base at the head, changes how that week goes.