Silver Creek (Indiana)

Infobox_River
river_name = Silver Creek

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caption = Silver Creek, by Lapping Park
origin =
mouth = Ohio River
basin_countries = USA
length = 34 mi (54.4 km)
elevation =
mouth_elevation =
discharge =
watershed = 97,442 acres

Silver Creek is a stream in Indiana, USA. It drains a watershed of 97,442 acres. [cite web|url=http://www.clarkswcd.org/SilverCreek/SilverCreekWatershed.htm|title=Silver Creek Watershed Improvement Project|accessdate=2007-11-13|publisher=Clark County Soil and Water Preservation District] The creek rises in Scott County, Indiana and flows 34 miles, dropping 168 feet, before flowing into the Ohio River.

It forms the boundary between Clark and Floyd Counties. According to a Welsh legend, the creek was the site of battles against the alleged Welsh Prince Madoc. The stream was called Silver Creek by the time it was part of land granted to George Rogers Clark, who lived in a log cabin near the creek's mouth.cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Louisville|year=2001|title=Silver Creek|author=Amster, Betty Lou|editor=Kleber, John E.] It was named Silver Creek due to a rumor that silver treasure was hidden by creek, and that silver ore could be found. [Sarles, Jane. "Journeys Through Clarksville's Past". (2006) p.54]

At the mouth of the creek was the first cement operation in Indiana, at Beach's Mill in 1830. [Sarles, Jane. "Journeys Through Clarksville's Past". (2006) p.38]

The creek was the site of Shirt-Tail bend, a popular dueling location for Kentuckians, as the practice was illegal in their state. The Silver Creek banks were the site at least four duels, including most famously one between Humphrey Marshall and Henry Clay on January 19 1809. Both men suffered slight wounds. Marshall opposed Clay's proposal that all Kentucky legislators should wear domestic homespun rather than English broadcloth.

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