According to Early records...

Fishers Creek served the Warwick River Shire (the origins of Warwick County) as a work-boat repair haven dating back to the beginnings of the seventeenth century. It was advertised as " ... one of several small streams making inland, which, at the mouths, provided safe anchorage for skiffs, shallops, and small sloops." The remains of a few of these old wooden boats are just now disappearing from the banks of the creek.

Warwick River Shire, created in 1634, contained Mulberry Island, Denbigh, Blunt Point, and the Fishers Creek area. Even that early in time, this area was a fully settled center of trade, farming, political, and religious activity. During the Colonial period, some of the most influential men of the colony dwelt here with their families: Governor Samuel Mathews, Colonel William Cole, Colonel Miles Cary, Sr., Thomas Harwood (of Harwood's Mill), and Cole Digges. George Wythe, the William & Mary professor of law and instructor to Thomas Jefferson, practiced his profession at the Warwick Court in 1748 when he was 22 years old, ]axon's Gaol, now Jail Point at the southern end of Mulberry Island, presumably served during the seventeenth and eighteenth century period as a working prison. Early maps show a small island off the southern end of Mulberry Island on which ]axon's Gaol stood. That island has long since disappeared.

Several plantations were developed early in the area, including Blunt Point plantation, the seventeenth century home of William Roscow, Commissioner of Warwick County. Other plantations included those at Denbigh and Lee Hall.

The eighteenth century was a period of little growth for Warwich River Shire. In 1739 the area experienced a brief flurry of excitement with "pirate treasure" fever. It was reported that treasure was buried on Mulberry Island, possibly by the notorious Virginia pirate Blackbeard. Lieutenant Marnard killed the pirate on November 22, 1718. Afterward, Blackbeard's head was displayed on a pike on what became known as Blackbeard's Point in Hampton. That elusive Mulberry Island treasure has never been found.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, Warwick continued as an independent village, served until the 1940's by riverboat and rail. In fact, the mail service to Warwick was by mail boat which made its regular stops at a postal facility at Deep Creek. The Deep Creek school, still standing at 511 Deep Creek Road, served families on both sides of Fishers Creek. Students on the south side of the creek had to make their way out Blount Point Road to Warwick Road, then back towards the James River on Deek Creek Road to the school. This walk would take over one hour. In about 1920, a Blount point family built a footbridge across Fishers Creek to cut the walking time to school to about 20 minutes. This footbridge crossed from near what is now Hillcrest Drive on the south side of the creek to the area near what is now Graham Drive on the north side. The seventy year old remnant pilings of the footbridge can be seen by boat on the creek today.