Marrowbone Creek is a stream in Daviess County in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of Honey Creek.
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]
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edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Marrowbone Creek (Missouri)
- ^ "Daviess County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
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