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Rosharon, Texas

Rosharon, Texas
Census-designated place (CDP)
Nickname(s): "Buttermilk Station"
Rosharon is located in Texas
Rosharon
Rosharon
Rosharon is located in the US
Rosharon
Rosharon
Location within the state of Texas
Coordinates: 29°21′08″N 95°27′37″W / 29.35222°N 95.46028°W / 29.35222; -95.46028Coordinates: 29°21′08″N 95°27′37″W / 29.35222°N 95.46028°W / 29.35222; -95.46028
Country United States
State Texas
County Brazoria
Area
 • Total 3.2 sq mi (8.3 km2)
 • Land 3.2 sq mi (8.3 km2)
 • Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Population (2010)
 • Total 1,152
 • Density 358/sq mi (138.4/km2)
Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code 77583
Area code(s) 281 & 979
FIPS code 48-63332
GNIS feature ID 1366883

Rosharon (/rˈʃɛərən/ roh-SHAIR-ən), also known as "Buttermilk Station," is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Brazoria County, Texas, United States, at the intersection of Farm to Market Road 521 and Farm to Market Road 1462. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,152.

The Rosharon town site went unnamed during its early years. The area was settled by cotton and sugar plantations before the Civil War. Once the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway (Columbia Tap) was completed in 1859, the Rosharon stop on the train line was given the name Masterson's Station, after a nearby plantation owned by Thomas G. Masterson (ca. 1813–1884). Rosharon was known locally by trainmen as "Buttermilk Station" because an early resident was known to bring a bucket of buttermilk and a dipper to the railroad station to give the engineer and crew a drink.

George Wetmore Colles, Jr. (1871–1951), an electrical and mechanical engineer educated at Yale University (BA 1892) and the Stevens Institute of Technology, bought property in the area around 1900 and called his estate the Rose of Sharon Garden Ranch after the many Cherokee Roses (Rosa laevigata) that grew there. Colles also designed the community water system.


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