Cosme was a scheduled train stop of the Tampa Gulf Coast Railway. The tracks were used until 1960 when they were removed. No remnant of the Depot exists today. Cosme was first settled between 1900 and 1910. There was a depot, turpentine storage tanks next to the depot, a citrus packing house, and The Citrus Exchange. The Exchange employed a large number of Hungarian residents just west of the area. The Great Depression brought the community on hard times and the Hungarian colony, which were already living in tents, left to find other work. Local Pioneers are: William L. Mobley, A.J. Simms (the developer of the Walker Heights subdivision), a Hungarian family the Mogyorosys, Frank Peterson, and the Reverand Charles Walker, of whom the subdivision is named Submitted by: Mike Woodfin

. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was laid in Cosme in 1883.This service ran from Sanford to St. Petersburg. In 1910 the line was bought by a divisions of Seaboard, the Tampa Gulf Coast Railway In 1960 they were removed.