I was interested to learn last week that the creek in which Waterloo killed beavers last year was once called . . . that’s right, Beaver Creek.

Laurel Creek has been tested, studied and so changed by human intervention as to be unrecognizable by those who lived here 200 years ago. Even its name has changed. It was Beaver Creek in the 1800s (one branch retains the name), but at some point was changed to Laurel Creek.
– The creek The Record 4 Aug 2007

How prescient that name change was. Now let’s go find some laurel trees.