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Chriesman (\/\u02c8kr\u026asm\u0259n\/ KRISS-m\u0259n) is an unincorporated community in Burleson County, Texas, United States. The population was 30 in 2000. It is located within the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area.\n<\/p>
The community was named in honor of Horatio Chriesman (1797\u20131878), a surveyor and early settler from Virginia who moved to Texas as a member of the Old Three Hundred.[3] Alexander Thomson, Jr., brought the first settlers to this area in the 1830s. They named it Yellow Prairie for the tall, yellow grass in the prairie. It became a stop on the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway after a track was built through in 1880 and went by the name Yellow Prairie until the early 20th century. A post office was established here in 1880 and was named Yellow Prairie in 1884. The next year, it was renamed Chriesman. The community had 100 residents, a gristmill, a cotton gin, and churches for the Methodist and Presbyterian congregations.\nChriesman had its own school in 1890,[4] and a cucumber salting station was built by the San Antonio-based Price-Booker Manufacturing Company in 1904. Ten years later, Chriesman had telephone service, a bank, four general stores, a cotton gin, and 175 residents.\n<\/p><\/div>\n