Others soon followed: James Lake ; Pleasant Green Taylor, who settled on the Urban Stewart claim ; David Jenkins, who put up a small house on the south portion of Stewart's claim ; William W. Dixon, who settled by a small creek that would bear his name ; Stephen Ordway ; Luman A. Shurtleff ; and others.

The creek was renamed " Piper's " by early White settler A. W. Piper, but the name has largely become " Pipers ".

Custis Lee and Joseph B. Kershaw, under the command of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, fought the VI Corps along the creek.

The WM Connellsville Subdivision is seen on the right bank of the creek, and the B & O line is along the left bank.

Matawan mayor Arris B. Henderson ordered the Matawan Journal to print wanted posters offering a $ 100 reward ($ in dollars ) to anyone killing a shark in the creek.

Wall, Edward A. Clarke, John T. Lesley, Stephen M. Sparkman, William C. Brown and S. A. Jones, " to construct and operate a line of railway or railroads on any or all of the streets in the city or town of Tampa ... and on any or all of the avenues leading into or running near said city of Tampa, included within the area of land lying between the Hillsborough river and the creek known as the six mile creek east of said city of Tampa, and of also extending one or more of said lines of railway to and across the island at the mouth of the Hillsborough river, and the island known as Depot island, and said company shall further have the rights to operate said line or lines of railroad or any of them with steam or horse power, and shall have the right to purchase or construct and to run steamboats or other vessels, and to use and navigate the same on Hillsborough and Tampa bays, and upon all the streams ending therein.

Clarke alertly noticed some high ground across the creek that they seemed to be heading for and led some of his men there, having his horse shot from under him in the process.

The name first appears as ryver of Hamose in 1588 and it originally most likely applied just to a creek of the estuary that led up to the manor of Ham, north of the present-day Devonport Dockyard.

Matanzas creek was shown to be polluted in Sonoma county first flush results.

The first grant was made there in 1752, and included the huge overhanging mass of rock from which the creek takes its name.

Colonel Thomas Bailey came from Kentucky and formed the first settlement on the north fork of the creek which was about five miles to the northeast.

The first white man known to arrive was a German, Johann Schoonover, who lived for a short time on the creek later named for him to trade with the Indians, about 1820.

The town was first settled around 1825 and was named Andersons Creek for the afore mentioned creek.

The creek was named for a Cherokee Indian chief who lived in the area upon arrival of the first European settlers.

In 1872, a miner-turned-rancher from Central City, Colorado, Lewis Cross, staked the first homestead claim where the Colorado Central Railroad planned to cross Little Thompson creek.

The first western inhabitants named the creek and settlement after the Lenape chief who occupied the region.

" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.

Settled in the early 1830s, Georgetown was first named Tobanana for the nearby creek.

:" The village received its name from the following circumstance: The first settlement was made on the present site, which is on the south bank of the creek, and about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) south of the village of Cahokia.

A number of families with abolitionist leanings came from Platte and Clay counties, Missouri, came to the area, which was first known as North Cedar, taking its name from the creek that ran one mile south of Tippinville.

According to area legend, Soldier Creek ( which is an outlet of the Kansas River from which the town's name was derived ) was first named in the early 1850s when government surveyors were moving through the territory plotting out the 39th parallel and they found two army soldiers camped along the local creek.

In a little log cabin near the creek about 15 student, half white and half Indian were the first to attend.

The first was built in 1823 by James Lloyd to allow traffic on the Old National Pike to pass over the creek on its way toward the Allegheny Mountains

Nestled along a mountain river and in a wide valley along a creek, Cullowhee is one of the oldest settlements in Jackson County, and reportedly had the first school in the area, a one room school in 1830.

Several furnaces were built along the creek during the first decade of the 1800s and all ceased to exist after The War of 1812 began.

The town and a nearby creek were originally named Coon, after a Delaware family, when the first post office opened July 26, 1895.

A railroad was built from the mine along the creek down to the first Boston breaker, located next to and east of the old Shupp Cemetery at the bottom of Boston Hill.

The first sawmill on the creek was built in 1799.

Larrys Creek, which bisects Piatt Township, is named for Larry Burt, the first settler in the area, who lived near the mouth of the creek near what is now the hamlet of Larrys Creek.

About 3, 000 trout were stocked successfully into a four-mile ( 6 km ) section of the Creek downstream from Boswell in 2005, the first time the creek supported a fishery along this stretch in almost 100 years.

Cox named his village Joplin City after the spring and creek nearby, which had been named for the Reverend Harris G. Joplin, an early settler who founded the first Methodist congregation in the area in mid-century.

One of the warriors suddenly leaped to his feet and began running across the valley to the trees that lined the small creek.

I'll be down at the creek finishing the dishes, if you want me ''.

Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.

Harnessing a team to a buckboard, they drove out to a willow-lined creek about a half-mile off, then climbed down and began chopping.

The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.

About 300 yards up the creek was a cluster of Mexican houses containing six rooms in the form of a square.

Near the bottom of the picture, a squiggly line appears ; apparently, a stream | creek created by recent rain.

Other artifacts were discovered in the 1950s in the downtown area during remodeling of a commercial building, near the upper course of the creek.

The only watercourse in Casablanca is Oued Bouskoura, a small seasonal creek that until 1912 reached the Atlantic Ocean near the actual port.

Around 1: 45 p. m., juvenile Parole Officer Steve Jones spotted a boy's black shoe floating in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal in Robin Hood Hills.

Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed.

Police believed the boys were assaulted and killed at the location where they were found ; critics argued that the assault, at least, was unlikely to have occurred at the creek.

Misskelley's former attorney Dan Stidham cites multiple substantial police errors at the crime scene, characterizing it as " literally trampled, especially the creek bed.

" The bodies, he said, had been removed from the water before the coroner arrived to examine the scene and determine the state of rigor mortis, allowing the bodies to decay on the creek bank, and to be exposed to sunlight and insects.

The ose element derives from Old English wāse meaning ' mud ' ( as in ' ooze ') – the creek consisting of mud-banks at low tide.

After an accidental fall into a creek, Audubon contracted a severe fever.

The system used to cross the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges through the Burra creek gorge, and then flow out to Spencer Gulf near Port Pirie.

It derives its name from the old toll bridge ( adjacent to a naval saw mill ) across the creek between Eldad Hill and Molesworth Road, at one time the principal link between Plymouth and Devonport.

The creek to the east of the bridge was filled in with material from the quarries at Cattedown and Oreston during the late 1890s and the ground created became a municipal park, Victoria Park, which was officially opened in 1903.

The remainder of the creek to the west of Millbridge, up to Stonehouse Bridge and Pool, was filled in and by 1972 the whole area had been developed as rugby pitches.

Both were on horseback when they " came to an overturned tree with a large root system at a turn in the creek, almost as high as a room.

" When they rounded it they spotted the figure behind it nearly simultaneously, while it was " crouching beside the creek to their left.

* The dig of Khant: the Khanty creek, located in the north near Kayar in the lower valley of the Senegal River, gave its name to a Neolithic industry which mainly uses bone and wood.