William Henry Huddle & Huddle's Point on Bull Creek

The Surrender of Santa Anna by William H. Huddle. 

Image Credit: Bullock State Texas History Museum

In another article about UFO sightings over Austin in 1897 I made reference to a Huddle's Point: 

"The airship made its appearance again early yesterday morning. At least, three young men who were camping up on Bull Creek, near Huddle’s point, say they saw it..."

Huddle's Point is a landmark not appearing on maps I've reviewed. General location is the promontory on the west bank of Bull Creek overlooking its confluence with the Colorado. One source for its location is "She Recalls Bull Creek, Oak Grove of Long Ago!" The Austin American, Aug 14, 1966. It was referenced as a point of interest in old guides to Lake McDonald, now Lake Austin (Austin American-Statesman, Thu, Jun 8, 1893). It appears in some county deed records: Travis County Deed Records: Deed Record 318 Page: 156 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1249476/m1/162/

So who was Huddle? The promontory's namesake was by news accounts a favorite spot with "Austin's immortal artist", William Henry Huddle. (Austin American-Statesman, Thu, Jun 8, 1893). Given it is referenced in deed records he must have owned the land, but I haven't traced the deeds back to when he acquired it; he moved to Austin in 1876, so presumably after that.

The Briscoe Center for American History has this brief bio:

Born to Stephen G. Huddle and Nancy Foster in Wytheville, Virginia, William Henry
Huddle (1847-1892) enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving
under Nathan Bedford Forrest and Joseph Wheeler. Following the war, he lived briefly
in Paris, Texas, before studying art in Virginia and at the National Academy of Design
in New York City. In 1876, Huddle moved to Austin, where he worked as an artist
painting historical and political subjects relating to Texas, including a portrait of David
Crockett, the battle of San Jacinto, and Hood’s Texas Brigade. After studying art in
Munich, Germany, from 1884 through 1885, he received a commission from the Texas
Legislature to paint portraits of various Texas governors and presidents to be hung in
the Capitol building. In 1889, Huddle married fellow artist Nannie Zenobia Carver, who
worked as a painter and sculptor. 

He painted The Surrender of Santa Anna (1886) to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto, shown above, which now hangs in the state Capitol, as does Huddle's portrait of David Crockett. As if those two iconic paintings of Texas history aren't enough, Huddle completed portraits of all the presidents and the first seventeen governors before his death. He died of a stroke in Austin on March 23, 1892, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.

As Paul Harvey used to say, "And now you know the rest of the story!" (about Huddle's Point).