American Creek
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Noted but not named by Lewis & Clark, kit was called Beaver Creek in 1857 by the Nobles Trail which crossed it 5 miles upstream on a beaver dam. Called Cedar Island Creek on July 1, 1863 when used as S boundary of Crow Creek Reserve it became American Creek in the 1868 survey when a notorious road house on the Ft. Randall-Ft. Sully road was the crossing.
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