Close to everything welcome to the hampton inn houston baytown baytown is a little place thats played a big part in the history of texas the first settlers in and around the current baytown area appeared around 1822 among them was nathaniel lynch who set up a ferry crossing which is still in operation today at the junction of the san jacinto river and buffalo bayou in 1908 an oil strike was made beside tabbs bay oil exploration began in earnest and in 1916 the goose creek oil field be