NC Gazetteer

Mill Creek

Also known as: Brights Mill Creek, Vosses Creek
A creek in Perquimans County
… rises in E Perquimans County and flows SW into Perquimans River. Known originally as Vosses Creek, named for William Voss, who owned land there before 1700. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was called Brights Mill Creek for a local mill owner. From that name the modern name derived.