Stinking Quarter Creek

… rises in S Guilford County and flows NE into Alamance County, where it enters Great Alamance Creek. Appears on the Collet map, 1770. Name said to have been derived from the fact that Indians cleaned animals there and left quarters of meat to spoil. Eli Caruthers, writing in 1856, said it was formerly known as Stauken's Quarter Creek, presumably named for a grant of land to a pioneer settler.