Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of
Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern
Harris County (),
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
, USA.
[Handbook of Texas Online, "CARPENTERS BAYOU," accessed May 15, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rhc04.] The
bayou waterway
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routes southeast for about twelve miles until it joins
Buffalo Bayou at the
San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
The San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site includes the location of the Battle of San Jacinto and the museum ship . It is located off the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas near the city of Houston. The site was desig ...
().
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History
The bayou's name commemorates David Carpenter, a partner of William Harris as one of Stephen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario. Known as the "Father of Texas" and the founder of Anglo Texas,Hatch (1999), p. 43. he led the second and, ultimately, the successful colonization ...
's "Old Three Hundred" families of Austin's Colony
The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas. Each grantee was head of a household, or, in some cases, a partnership of married men. Austin was an American approved in 1 ...
in what later became Texas.Noah Smithwick
Noah Smithwick (January 01, 1808October 21, 1899) was a colonist who lived in Texas from 1827 and until the Civil War began. A gunsmith and blacksmith, he fought in the Texas Revolution and served as a Texas Ranger. Late in life he dictated his re ...
: ''The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days'', University of Texas Press, Austin, Tex., 1983, pp. 21, 23; and Texas State Historical Association: ''The New Handbook of Texas'', Austin, Tex., 1996, Vol. 1, p. 983.Harris County, Texas
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, making it the most populous county in Texas and the third most populous county in the United States. Its county seat is Houston, ...
on August 16, 1824, which fronted on Carpenter's Bayou in southeastern Harris County, near San Felipe de Austin
San Felipe ( ), also known as San Felipe de Austin, is a town in Austin County, Texas, United States. The town was the social, economic, and political center of the early Stephen F. Austin colony. The population was 747 at the 2010 census.
History ...
.[ Carpenter was a ]blacksmith
A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith). Blacksmiths produce objects such as gates, gr ...
, and a single man at the time of the grant. He may have died as early as 1828, the year that Noah Smithwick
Noah Smithwick (January 01, 1808October 21, 1899) was a colonist who lived in Texas from 1827 and until the Civil War began. A gunsmith and blacksmith, he fought in the Texas Revolution and served as a Texas Ranger. Late in life he dictated his re ...
bought his blacksmith's outfit in San Felipe.[
]
See also
*List of rivers of Texas
The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers acc ...
References
External links
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Rivers of Harris County, Texas
Rivers of Texas
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