I lived in Baytown for 20 years before I realized I was driving across Goose Creek. 

Goose Creek Lake ends on business 146 and comes under the road from West Main. There was at one time a Confederate Naval shipyard located here. Next time it appears is beside Robert E. Lee High School, but I would be willing to wager that most students do not know what waterway it is.  WE NOW HAVE SIGNS!  See photographs here!

Texas Avenue is the next place you see it as it passes behind the old San Jacinto Hospital.  Then we see it going under Decker Drive and Park Street, where we get a glimpse of it's estuary properties.

 Meandering under the Loop (Bob Lanier Drive, or State Highway 146), past Bay Coast Hospital (most of us still think of it as Gulf Coast Hospital), under Rollingbrook, through the Goose Creek Country Club, and out and through Lantern Park.

Lynchburg Cedar Bayou has a small bridge over it, as does McLean and Morelos Roads.  Our historic creek makes it's entrance from McNair and into the city of Baytown.

What's the point of this lesson in topography, you ask? Well, I'll tell you and I'm sure you will see the importance of it.  Our area is rich in history, but knowledge of it is slipping away.  I propose that the city establish signs on both sides of each bridge and overpass that state 'Goose Creek'. The same goes for the crossing of Cedar Bayou on Highway 146.  I would like the City to approach the State of Texas for Highway 146 also.

UPDATE!  Thanks to the folks we appealed to, we now have signs on Goose Creek!  Thank you everyone who has participated to bring this about and a special thank you to the great people in our government that made it happen.

Dear Bert, I've been waiting to write this until all of the sign work on Goose Creek stream is essentially finished. It has taken quite a while but with a few exceptions, all the bridge crossings are marked with the green and white signs in each direction. They do not say Historic Goose Creek Stream as you may have suggested at one time. I believe the city decided that that would not be consistent with the way crossings of the San Jacinto or Brazos Rivers are marked, and they are even more historic. Thank you for your interest which led to the identification we now have.

Sincerely, Merv Rosenbaum Chairman, Goose Creek Stream Development Committee