Red Scaffold Creek

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

According to tradition, Red Scaffold Creek was named from an incident when two homicide victims were laid at the creek on a red scaffold. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Red Scaffold Creek
  2. Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.1-3. University of South Dakota. p. 58.

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