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. 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. 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. ==See also==