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History in
a Pecan Shell
Charles Stillman established the Santa Rosa Ranch in
the 1860s. It is from the ranch that the town takes its name. A post
office operated on the ranch three years before the Civil War. The
ranch became a stop for cotton wagons on their way to Mexico during
the civil war.
Development of the town began in earnest in 1913. The community was
granted its second post office in 1927 – sixty years after the opening
of the first facility.
A water district set up an irrigation system and in the early 1920s
the community built a brick school, replacing the frame building they
had been using.
The Southern Pacific built a depot in 1927 and the following year
a highway connected Santa Rosa to La
Feria.
The population at the depths of the Great Depression was around 400,
declining to 224 By the mid 1940s. It grew to over 1,500 in the 1960s
and for the 1990 census the figure was 2,223. |
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