Beaver Creek rises about twelve miles southeast of Glasgow.
The main head is a large spring which furnished water to a family by the name of Oldham that lived on a high hill above the spring. Mr. Oldham for many years in an early day ran a tannery on his farm which was fed from springs about the head of the creek. He was among the first settlers of that portion of the county. He raised a family that is still remembered by the old inhabitants of the county. Ky. Inf., and died in Louisville during the service.