Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogTranscript,,Cheery Creek Naming Cherry Creek forty-niners on their way West nearly a decade before Denver was founded spoke of a creek in the country west of the Missouri River c,s the ''creek with the cherries on its bank that empties into the -South Platte River." when Denver was founded, the creek received the shorter name of Cherry Creek. The cherries were wild choke cherries 1946CollectionWestern History Subject IndexRelated MaterialWestern History Subject Index AbbreviationsType of MaterialIndex CardLanguageeng
