Here's why I would think I'd have heard that name if it's actually a Thing in modern times (though maybe parts or all of the present naval harbor, accessed via a skinny channel from the Chesapeake Bay, formerly included that name; those harbor waters extend west into what's called East Beach in Norfolk's Ocean View):
During high school I frequented the Little Creek base for various reasons, pretty much all over it, and had friends who lived just across the fence from it on the Virginia Beach side, on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. During college, when not on my midshipman cruises, I worked at both of Little Creek's beaches, enlisted and officers, and during the Marine phase of one of my midshipman cruises, I spent three weeks all over the base (finding out why you should respect actual Marines who complete Paris Island). I've fished along that coast, and during a summer of special naval schools around Tidewater before going to Vietnam, I lived in a beach cottage beside the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, a short walking distance from the base fence. Later I was the executive officer and navigator of a small ship homeported at Little Creek, and over the decades since then, I've continued--because of family and other connections--to have experiences on and around that base. Because I've now entered what I can no longer honestly characterize merely as pregeezerhood, you could imagine that I maybe heard the name a half century ago but forgot it--and that my car keys, if they could talk, might affirm that possibility. But I had a childhood friend named Kaufman, so I doubt I'd have forgotten the recurrence of that name in my life. If you do find such a bay, I hope you post an update here. Thanks. Steve Corneliussenhttps://selfemancipator.substack.com/
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