Carpenters Bayou

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Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), Texas, USA.[1] The bayou waterway routes southeast for about twelve miles until it joins Buffalo Bayou at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".).[2]

History

The bayou's name commemorates David Carpenter, 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.[3] Carpenter and Harris received a sitio[4] 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.[3] Carpenter was a blacksmith, and a single man at the time of the grant. He may have died as early as 1828, the year that Noah Smithwick bought his blacksmith's outfit in San Felipe.[3]

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References

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  1. Handbook of Texas Online, "CARPENTERS BAYOU," accessed May 15, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rhc04.
  2. [[[:Template:Geonameslink]] Carpenters Bayou] in [[[:Template:Geonamesabout]] Geonames.org (cc-by)]
  3. a b c Noah Smithwick: 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.
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