“I sincerely doubt the creek is named after a massacre,” Sebastian interjected. “‘Kill’ or ‘kille’ is Middle Dutch for ‘creek.’ Early settlers probably used the word to describe this pitiful little stream. As more and more folks moved to the area, they must have thought kill was the name of the creek, hence Kill Creek. Its name is nothing but a redundancy. Like saying ‘the Rio Grande River’ or ‘the Sahara Desert.’” “Or Christian extremists,” added Moore.
