Effing Creek and Tickle C**t Creek were supposedly named by the local  
inhabitants who were devoutly predisposed to the idea that government  
was totally intrusive and so thought that by using offensive names,  
they would keep government and civil folk at some remove from their  
general locations. But, where I read that I cannot remember. I'd  
check in Nicholls, Michael Lee, 1972 Origins of the Virginia  
Southside, 1703-1753: A Social and Economic Study.  Ph.D.  
Dissertation, College of William & Mary, or in Kulikoff, Allan
1986 Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the  
Chesapeake, 1680-1800.  University of North Carolina Press.

But as their influence waned, Modest Creek was the 180° counterpart.

Lyle Browning

On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Clara Callahan wrote:

> Does anyone know know how F--king Creek in colonial Lunenburg  
> County got its name, and does this mean that in Colonial Virginia  
> circa 1732 it was not a worty dird?
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