Dutch Creek
Dutch Creek is an every day name in this area, and I suppose very few people these days even wonder how the little stream got its name. My father told me many times about the little stream which ran through our old home ranch. It was in the early days, when a Dutchman lived on what is now Henry C. Withearl's little ranch. while he was there he built a little cabin, and when I was a boy the tumbled down fire-place was there, and a few boards from his cabin also.
The Dutchman had been a shoe-cobbler by trade. I don't remember his real name. People called him the Dutchman, and so the stream got its name, Dutch Creek. The Dutchman no doubt has passed on over the Great Divide many years ago, but the name, Dutchman, in part, still lives on.
I spent many happy days along Dutch Creek when I was a little sprout and to this day my memories stray back to my boyhood, and the happy, care-free days along Dutch Creek, with nothing at all to worry about, especially during the winter time, when our summer-time school was closed. It seems that school was the only worry that I had, and the only happy day I spent at school was the last one. (Dutch Creek is still on topo maps, flows into the Klamath Iron Gate reservoir along with Camp Creek.)
George Wright descriptions