Founded approximately 200 years ago, the community lies in a rural yet formerly industrial region of fields and broken terrain.

[1] It lies on the northern side of U.S. Route 422 at its intersection with Rose Point Road, along the gorge of the Slippery Rock Creek.

Seen most clearly in the deep and broken gorge of the Slippery Rock Creek[6] is the karst topography of the region around Rose Point, which also includes significant cave complexes.

[5] The first settler in the Rose Point vicinity were Abraham Wigle and Samuel Stickle of Westmoreland County, who arrived in 1804.

[6][7] Public services were also introduced to the community: a post office was opened in the 1850s, and a village school was established in the early 1860s.