Two Bit Creek


Two Bit Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.[1]

Some say the stream was a "two-bit creek" (i.e. a small creek), hence its name, while others believe local prospectors found two "bits" of gold, causing the name to be selected.[2]

"Early in the Spring of 1877, father left Galesburg again, this time successfully reaching Deadwood. He located mines on a little stream which he named Two Bit Creek because the bits of gold washed out in a placer mining pan so often yielded that amount - two bits or twenty-five cents."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Two Bit Creek
  2. ^ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 66.
  3. ^ A Goodly Heritage, Maude B. Stilwell (nee Baggaley) (1959), p. 3

44°23′14″N 103°37′52″W / 44.38722°N 103.63111°W / 44.38722; -103.63111


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