College Creek
Coordinates: 37°13′23″N 76°41′38″W / 37.22306°N 76.69389°W College Creek (formerly named Archer's Hope Creek) is located in James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia in the United States. From a point of origin near the independent city of Williamsburg, it is a tributary of the James River.
As Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was first settled by English colonists beginning in 1607, a nearby tributary of the James River was named Archer's Hope Creek. It took its name from a point of land near the mouth named Archer's Hope after Gabriel Archer, one of the colonists who was in favor of the Jamestown location. In modern times, the National Park Service's Colonial Parkway has a scenic turnout at Archer's Hope. Archer's Hope Creek drained the southern half of the nearby section of the Virginia Peninsula, with a watershed extending to a high point ridge near the center. It is mentioned frequently in historical records of the early period of the Colony of Virginia, and became an important part of an important fortification in the 1630s.
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