The settlement is mentioned in Herman Melville's short story "The Lightning-Rod Man", included in The Piazza Tales (1856), which says 'In Criggan last month, I put up three-and-twenty rods on only five buildings.' 'Let me see. Was it not at Criggan last week, about midnight on Saturday, that the steeple, the big elm and the assembly-room cupola were struck?.'
