VA-K234 History on Crouchs Creek

Marker text: HISTORY ON CROUCH'S CREEK

Originally called Tappahannock Creek by the English. Crouch's Creek flowed through a number of early English settlements. By 1625 George Sandys had holdings in Surry County, known as Treasurer's Plantation, east of the creek. Sandys was a poet, a member of the Council of State, and treasurer of the Virginia Company. Returning to England by the late 1620s, he published an English translation of Ovid's <i>Metamorphoses</i>. Thomas Crouch patented land on the creek in 1638 and eventually the creek took his name. By 1702, a ferry operated between Jamestown and Crouch's Creek.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004