Second Creek
Also known as: Mequopen
… rises in N central Tyrrell County S of community of Pleasant View and flows W into Scuppernong River approx. 2¾ mi. S of town of Columbia. An old Indian village of uncertain tribal affiliation, Mequopen, is shown at the mouth of the creek on the De Bry map, 1590. Name means "red tribes" or "where there are red tribes."