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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 |