[3] The area was originally inhabited by the Lenape native americans as Lackawissa or Lahaskeekee, "the place of much writing".

In 1718, Richard Mitchell purchased 70 acres (28 hectares) and built a mill.

Flowing just a little over 100 feet (30 m), it enters Buckingham Township running southwest, then south, then southwest again, runs through five more ponds, and is supplied by two unnamed tributaries before its junction with Watson Creek forming Mill Creek at the Mill Creek 6.80 river mile.

It then very briefly flows through a small portion of the Beekmantown Group, from the Ordovician, a layer of limestone containing dolomite, and chert.

The Allentown consists of dolomite and impure limestone, siltstone containing calcium carbonate, oolites, stromatolites, and sharpstone.