Matrimony Creek

Matrimony Creek is a stream in Rockingham County, North Carolina and Henry County, Virginia.[1]

An 18th-century bachelor named Matrimony Creek because he regarded the stream, like civil marriage, as "noisy, impetuous, and clamorous, though unsullied".[2][3]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Matrimony Creek
  2. ↑ Scriba, Jay (15 October 1970). "From Sleepy Eye to Chicken Bristle, USA". The Milwaukee Journal. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Bailey, Louise (11 April 1988). "For settlers, places told their stories". Times-News. p. 5. Retrieved 23 April 2015.


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