 A logging railroad ran along the creek from 1901 to 1904 for timber clearcutting and small-scale lumbering continues.The Great Island Path was a major trail that ran north along the Susquehanna River from the Saponi village of Shamokin at modern Sunbury, fording the river there and following the west bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River north until White Deer Hole valley.The path turned west at Allenwood and followed White Deer Hole Creek until about the present location of Elimsport in Washington Township.