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Rosharon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Brazoria County, Texas, at the junction of Farm to Market Roads 521 and 1462, pronounced roh-SHAIR-ən.

Rosharon's nickname is "Buttermilk Station," because an early resident used to bring a bucket of buttermilk and a dipper to the railroad stop to give the engineer and crew a drink.

Before it was Rosharon, the stop on the Columbia Tap railroad, completed in 1859, was called Masterson's Station after Thomas G. Masterson's nearby plantation, in an area settled by cotton and sugar plantations before the Civil War.

The name Rosharon comes from the Rose of Sharon Garden Ranch, an estate bought around 1900 by Yale-educated engineer George Wetmore Colles Jr. and named for the Cherokee roses growing there; Colles also designed the community's water system.

When the South Texas Water Company arrived in 1935, its irrigation canals brought some seventy-five to eighty rice farmers to the Rosharon area.

Rosharon had a population of 1,362 at the 2020 census, up 18.2% from 1,152 in 2010, the first census in which it appeared as a census-designated place; Census Bureau survey estimates count roughly 700 housing units in the community.

A majority of Rosharon residents, about 55% in the 2020 census, are Hispanic or Latino.

Four Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison units — Ramsey, Stringfellow, Terrell, and Darrington — sit near Rosharon, and prison employees and their families add considerably to the local economy.

Near Rosharon is "Little Cambodia," a Cambodian-American farming community founded in 1985 whose water-spinach growers famously fought state regulators for the right to farm the crop; Rosharon's ZIP code has the highest concentration of Cambodian Americans in Greater Houston.

Rosharon is home to Skydive Spaceland Houston, a major skydiving center with its own dedicated airstrip at the corner of FM 521 and FM 1462.