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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