Alarm Creek is remembered as the scene of a near battle between two vigilante factions, one based in Walnut Springs and the other in Dublin. The two sides were drawn up for battle on each side of Alarm Creek when “Choctaw Bill” Robertson, a respected preacher, galloped down the creek with a large white flag. Robertson brought the two sides together and settled the matter. In 1912, Will Hickey described the creek in The Stephenville Tribune, as once spring fed, with an abundance of fish. But when the timber on the slopes was cut and the thick, native grasses grazed away, the creek dried up, “It’s glory has departed forever.”