Humorous side note

Our Allen ancestors in Lunenburg County, Virginia in the 1700's, owned extensive land on "Fucking Creek" (now called Modest Creek).

Abstracted from Library of VA records by Ron Goodman, Nov 2000:
27 May 1755, Robert Allen of Amelia Co., to Joseph Pulliam of Lunenburg, for 11£.11s.7p, 150 ac Lunenburg Co, on forks of Fucking (now Modest) Creek, part of grant to sd. Allen on 10 Sep 1755, Wit: Henry Williams, William Brown, rec 5 Dec 1758 (LuDB 5:350-351)

There are other even worse place names from that era.  I guess you could say that our early Virginia ancestors had a less than romantic view of the land.  If you want a chuckle, check out some of the other early place names in our country, but don't say I didn't warn you: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=134219