In October I wrote about how Baptist Hill in Houston got the name “hill.” Yesterday I found a story in a newspaper from 1874 that confirms the terrain there was rough:

“Just in the rear of the colored Baptist church, on the bayou, in the Fourth Ward, a large, bald-faced horse has fallen down the bank and is in a position from which he cannot extricate himself, and where he may die if not recovered by the owner."

This grisly item appeared under the headline “Whose Horse?” in the Houston Daily Telegraph, May 27, 1874. It reinforces that the church that became Antioch Baptist was, in its first location, on steep ground that was difficult to navigate to and around.