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Alambique Creek : ウィキペディア英語版 | Alambique Creek
Alambique Creek is a 〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed 2012-02-11〕 stream located in San Mateo County, California in the United States. It is part of the San Francisquito Creek watershed. ==History== The creek's name is Spanish for "still," referring to a liquor distillery. The name refers to moonshiner Tom Bowen and Nicholas Dawson, who built an illegal still on the creek in 1842.〔 The creek runs through Wunderlich Park in Woodside, California, where, in 1904, the creek was used by J. A. Folger for the first hydro-electrical power system in the region.
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