Marrowbone Creek (Missouri)

Marrowbone Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

According to tradition, Marrowbone Creek was named from an incident when some frontiersmen cooked and ate copious amounts of elk bone marrow near the creek.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Marrowbone Creek (Missouri)
  2. ↑ "Daviess County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

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