Baytown & Surrounding Areas Local History: Significant People

Article from the Handbook of Texas online. The Akokisa were early residents of the land in this area.

This article from the Handbook of Texas Online gives an overview of who the Karankawa Indians were.

This profile of Burnet is published by the Texas State Library. Burnet was the first president of Texas while it was an independent nation and made his home near Lynchburg.

The Handbook of Texas online includes an article about William Scott, one of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred colonists whose land holdings included part of what today makes up Baytown.

These images from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image document parts of the family and home life of the former Texas governor and one of the founders of the Humble Oil Company.

Price Pruett, who laid out the original townsite of Goose Creek with Ross S. Sterling, is buried in Hill of Rest Cemetery in Baytown. You can view his grave marker on the Find a Grave website.

This link to the Harris County Historical Commission site provides the text of Ashbel Smith's Texas State Historical Marker.

Sjolander was an early resident of the Cedar Bayou area and a State of Texas poet laureate.

This LibGuide lists published authors who have ties to Baytown and the surrounding areas.

January 2023 article published in the Baytown Sun.

Singer, born 1994 in Baytown.

Actor, born in 1944 in Goose Creek.