Calf Creek was named after a local legend of a white bison calf that was found in a nearby creek in 1846 by an unnamed Muscogee medicine man and his Scots-Irish guide Marcus Cornell.

According to the story, the calf signified that better times were soon to come and that future generations would live in prosperity.

Cornell is then said to have built a small cabin in next to the creek, where he raised five children and hunted until he reached old age.

Although the historicity of the legend is uncertain, it has stuck with the township's population for decades and remains a part of the public consciousness.

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