Two Bit Creek
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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]
