Here in New England, very rarely do you here the word creek, usually
there called brooks. We also have a Bread and Cheese Brook in Westport
Ma. One that comes to mind is - Labor in Vain Brook in Somerset, don't
know how that name evolved, but always wondered about its existence.
There is a creek in Amesbury called the Starlight Creek, a brook in
Boxford called Fish Brook, Destruction Brook in Dartmouth, Salmon Brook
and Trout Brook in Dunstable, Queen Gutter Brook in Fall River, Baiting
Brook in Framingham, Alewife Brook in Gloucester, Hopping Brook and Jar
Brook in Holliston, Tumbling Brook in Holbrook, Allowance Brook in
Sudbury, Shaving Brook in Middleborough, Frogfoot Brook in Plymouth, to
name a few with odd names.
Rick Rego (Swansea Ma)
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:08:09 -0400 Christopher Scharpf
<ichthos_at_charm.net> writes:
> I owe my fascination with native fishes and freshwater habitats to
> the tiny
> creek I grew up next to, which had an unusual name -- Bread and
> Cheese Creek, in
> Baltimore County, Maryland. It was named for the War of 1812
> militiaman (the
> Battle of North Point was fought nearby) who sat on its banks eating
> their
> rations of bread and cheese. I remember digging up muskets and shot
> along its
> banks when I was but a wee little brat oh so many years ago.
>
> This is not an unusual creek name, but it's an amusing creek
> name-related story.
> A few years back I was collecting fish with a friend in west-central
> Maryland.
> He drove while I studied the Delorme atlas, looking for potential
> collecting
> spots along the way.
>
> I said, "Just up the road a bit is Four Daughters Creek."
>
> "Yes!" my friend said, with unusual enthusiasm. "Let's collect
> there!"
>
> And so we did. Nothing much to speak of. A few blacknose dace. A
> small eel or
> two. A couple of baby bullheads.
>
> While we were packing up our gear my friend expressed
> disappointment.
>
> "Bummers. I was expecting a lot of darters."
>
> "What made you think there would be darters here?" I asked.
>
> "It's name. Why else would they have called it 'Four Darters
> Creek?'"
>
>
> Christopher Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
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