Whetstone River

The Whetstone River is a 12.7-mile-long (20.4 km) tributary of the Minnesota River in northeastern South Dakota and a very small portion of western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

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    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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