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There has to be a better swimming spot (lemmy.world)
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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

...remembering how they had been served at the Whore-Kill, they went some ten or twelve miles higher, where they landed again and traded with the Indians, trusting the Indians to come onto their stores ashore, and likewise aboard their sloop drinking and debauching with the Indians until they were at last barbarously murdered, and so that place was christened with their blood and to this day is called the Murderer-Kill, that is, Murderers Creek.[11]

— George R. Stewart, Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States

(this story of it's naming is now considered a folk tale)

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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