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----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Carillio <darterman_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- unusual creek names
Chris, is that a true story!!!???... That had me amused as I was relating
the pronunciation of "Daughters" with the way someone in such the area would
pronounce "darters".. Here is one that is not really unusual, but just the
same, I wonder how it got it's name.... "Coffee Creek" This is in Trumbull
county Oh. and also near Newark, there is "Claylick creek"... Who would have
licked clay??? HA!
>From: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_charm.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: NANFA Mailing List <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- unusual creek names
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:08:09 -0400
>
>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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