History on Crouch's Creek
N 37° 07.768 W 076° 48.346
18S E 339595 N 4110760
Crouch's Creek was originally called Tappahannock Creek.
Waymark Code: WM16AK
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 01/29/2007
Views: 40
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 Metamorphoses. 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.
Marker Number: K 234
Marker Title: History on Crouch's Creek
Marker Location: Rt. 10 just southeast of the Town of Surry
County or Independent City: Surry County
Marker Program Sponsor: Department of Historic Resources, 2004.
Web Site: Not listed
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