Harmon Creek
Harmon Creek, a spring-fed perennial stream, rises three miles east of
Huntsville in east central Walker County (at 30°42' N, 95°27' W) and
flows north for sixteen miles to its mouth on Lake Livingston, near the
Trinity county line (at 30°52' N, 95°24' W). The stream's source lies
within the Sam Houston National Forest. It traverses gently rolling to
nearly level terrain surfaced by sandy and loamy soils. Along the
creek's banks grow woods of loblolly and shortleaf pine, sweetgum, black
gum, elm, pecan, water oak, post oak, willow oak, and black hickory.
Settlement in the vicinity began in the mid-1830s. Huntsville's Mount
Pleasant Baptist Church conducted services on the creek banks from 1838
to 1844. After the Civil War
an experimental freedmen's community, known as Grant's Colony, operated
for many years on a large tract of land on the upper creek. The Arizona
community has been on the east bank of the middle creek since the early
1900s. A state fish hatchery is on the west bank of the upper creek. TSHA
Texas State Historical Association
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/harmon-creek