Mulberry Creek from the Air morattico.com                                                                                                                                photograph courtesy of pm and ss e | w Mulberry Creek (shown here from the approximate point of its mouth), referred to on Webb's 1835 map and  on geological survey maps of the 1920's as Mud Creek (and even earlier by Joseph Ball II as "Mud's Creek") is a tidal stream about two and a half miles long, which enters the Rappahannock River at Colbert Point,  approximately twenty-six miles above the river's mouth.  Behind Colbert Point the creek broadens north and west into a small bay known as House Cove or Colbourn's Cove (not visible in the photograph) from which it proceeds in an east-southeasterly direction to its head at Forest Landing, 
  where once stood a wooden footbridge.  On the northern shore of the creek are Brick Kiln Cove, Racoon Cove, and Anthony's Cove.  Belle Isle is the body of land visible on the southern bank of the creek.     Home  

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