| At the extreme
NW corner of Galveston Bay where buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River meet.
"A beautiful peninsula containing Ross Sterling home and terminating at the
Houston Ship Channel at Barbours Cut." - Ken
Rudine, October 22, 2007
History in a Pecan
Shell:
Settled as early as 1822, the first resident was Nicholas Rightor.
The next owner was Johnson Calhoun Hunter who bought it from Rightor in 1824. The
land changed hands again in the late 1820s when Joseph C. Clopper and his three
sons bought it and renamed the Point after themselves. Over the years the place
had been known as Rightor's Point, Hunter's Point and Clopper's Point, but after
one of the Clopper sons sold the property to James Morgan in late 1834, it’s been
Morgan’s Point ever since.
Morgan built a store and became the agent
for a colony called New Washington, which hardly materialized when during the
Texas Revolution the site was occupied by Mexican troops who burned the structures
after appropriating anything of use
A Confederate shipyard was built at the mouth of Goose Creek in 1864 and it was
about this time thought was given to dredging a channel. In 1876 the shipping
channel had been completed by Charles Morgan.
By 1930 a causeway had been built and a ferry was in operation. The causeway was
replaced by the Washburn Tunnel in 1954 and the tunnel was superseded by the Fred
Hartman bridge in the 1980s.
The population was a mere 50 just after WWII,
reaching 650 by the early 1950s. 1980 seems to be the high-water mark for Morgan’s
Point with 716 residents reported.
A State Historical marker marks the
Morgan's Point Cemetery, and James Morgan’s estate of Orange Grove has a marker
of its own. | 
