title: Matrimony Creek
text: # Matrimony Creek
  
  Matrimony Creek is a stream in Rockingham County, North Carolina and Henry County, Virginia.
  
  An 18th-century bachelor named Matrimony Creek because he regarded the stream, like civil marriage, as "noisy, impetuous, and clamorous, though unsullied".
  
  This greenway stretches a little over a mile in each direction, winding through scenic groves of brush, some overhanging for cool shade from harsh summer sun. Towards its western edge, a rushing stream flows as a waterfall converges just below the Center Church street bridge.
  
  