Raccoon Creek
Also known as: Perrishoes Creek, Lakers Creek, Castletons Creek
… rises in SW Perquimans County in Bear Swamp and flows NE into Perquimans River. Until early in the twentieth century, it was known as Skinners Creek. In colonial days it was known as Castletons Creek (for George Castleton, a landowner there prior to 1688). Two small streams, now without names, that form the headwaters of Raccoon Creek were known in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as Lakers Creek (for Benjamin Laker, who owned land there in 1686) and Perrishoes Creek (for James Perishoe, who lived on the creek prior to 1688). Lakers Creek appears on the Moseley map, 1733.
