Rosharon is an unincorporated town of just over 500 residents located at the intersection of Farm roads 521 and 1462, thirty miles south of downtown Houston in northern Brazoria County. Cotton and sugar planters settled the Rosharon town site before the Civil War.
Rosharon was also known locally as Buttermilk Station because an early resident frequently brought a bucket of buttermilk and a dipper to the railroad stop to treat the engineer and crew. About 1900 George Wetmore Colles bought property near the site. He called his place the "Rose of Sharon Garden Ranch" because of the Cherokee roses growing in the area. The town's name was later shortened to Rosharon. Colles obtained a post office in 1912 and designed the community water system. A cotton gin was moved to Rosharon from Houston in the 1920's thus providing employment for several persons. As an added bonus, the gin's engine was used for the town's first power plant.
The first school was held in a private home and later moved to a separate building. Some years later the Rosharon district was consolidated with the Angleton schools; students were bused to Angleton in the late twentieth century, a practice that continues to this day. Most residents commute to jobs in nearby towns. Four units of the Texas Department of Corrections, three at Ramsey and one at Darrington, are located nearby, and TDC employees and their families add considerably to the town's economy.
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Rosharon is an unincorporated town of just over 500 residents located at the intersection of Farm roads 521 and 1462, thirty miles south of downtown Houston in northern Brazoria County. Cotton and sugar planters settled the Rosharon town site before the Civil War.
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