Carpenters Bayou
Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County 29°51′N 95°10′W / 29.850°N 95.167°W, Texas, USA, and runs southeast for about twelve miles until it joins Buffalo Bayou at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site 29°45′N 95°06′W / 29.750°N 95.100°W.
The bayou's name commemorates David Carpenter, born ca. 1800, who was a partner of William Harris as one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" families of Austin's Colony in what later became Texas.[1] Carpenter and Harris received a sitio of land in present Harris County, Texas on August 16, 1824, which fronted on Carpenter's Bayou in southeastern Harris County, near San Felipe de Austin.[2] He was a blacksmith, and a single man at the time of the grant. He may have died as early as 1828, the apparent year that Noah Smithwick bought his blacksmith's outfit in San Felipe.[3]
References
- Handbook of Texas Online (accessed June 1, 2007).