8 September 02, 2021
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THE CREEK 1
y Cecil Lawson
‘ There’s a little unnamed
. stream that runs out of the
woods behind my house.
A section of it forms some-
I:.thing of a property boundary
j~3vith the neighbor behind us
~:before it gently curves and
:‘ flows onward toward the road-
' I’ way and then on to the Licking
.‘ River.
Before it gets there, it has
' I been channeled into a culvert
L: than runs alongside I-64 until
’_ v itreaches the river at the Bath-
Rowan County line, just besides
. the interstate bridge there.
, I’ve tried to find how it might
have ran toward the river be-
fore the interstate was built by
looking at old maps, but I’ve
never seen it worthy of being
, recorded on any map.
Over many decades I have
i explored its headwaters in the
woods. Before it forms a single
stream that is near my family’s
northernmost property bound-
ary, it is fed by two branches,
'one of which curves to the
Southwest, and the other to the
" northwest.
‘ The southwest branch is the
larger of the two and runs into
thicker stands of trees, includ-
ing what may possibly be a Na-
tive American marker tree, in
r,which a single limb of a very
r large and old tree is growing at
a 45 degree angle and pointing
~Vto the southeast The stream
then continues on until it reach-
. .es a patch of the woods that
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stays wet for most of the year
and is probably fed by local un-
derground springs, a feature I
have happened to notice along
'a gentle rise in the land along
several different properties.
' ' The swampy area then forms
corner of the woods with an-
other neighbor.
The northwest branch has
taken me much longer to fully
explore. I have found it to run
diagonal across the length of
most of the woods. It must
gather an enormous amount
of drainage during heavy rains,
but its depth is less than a foot
along most of its run. It finally
comes to a head and then gen-
tly disappears near a little grove
of misshapen hickory trees that
were made that way by a heavy
storm long, long ago.
I remember once getting
lost in those woods one winter
when I was a teenage, when
the snow was several feet
deep. I managed to locate the
northwest branch and follow it
back to a recognizable place.
I wasn’t smart enough at the
time to realize that, there be-
ing snow on the ground, I could
have relraced my own tracks,
but I remain grateful to the
stream for leading me in the
right direction.
While researching old
deeds, I was unable to find out
much about the little stream,
so I’ve had to rely on my own
observations over time. On
another neighboring property,
the creek is fed by another
set of branches, but these are
not natural. I think they were
once ditches dug where now
stands a younger set of woods,
as it has an intricate set of right
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of these are fed by water chan-
neled alongside two low berms
which parallel the barbed wire
fences within the woods, which
makes me think the original
property boundaries were sirn—
ply deep ditches and piles of
dirt cut into the ground. All of
these are then channeled into
a straight ditch which forms a
property boundary between
two other neighbors before it
runs into the creek. Someone
put a lot of work into that set of
drainages. At this time its ex-
act history remains unknown
to me, but I’ll keep digging.
During rainy times such as
we’ve been having, the little
creek has a tendency to over-
run its culvert as it passes
under Old Sand Road, caus
ing brief, minor flooding of
the roadway. Of course, by
the time it reaches that spot,
it is additionally fed by ditches
along the road, so it‘s not a real
surprise when that happens,
given the amount it’s rained
over the past decade.
The bottom of the creek is
filled with sand and tiny pieces
of sandstone, and I’ve found
little else in it over time.
There are many, many other
creeks around, but this is the
one I know best I grew up with
it, walked its bank, and contin-
ue to do so. I think it still might
have something to teach.
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