Description
Lemon Creek is located flows to Gastineau Channel, 0.8 mi. E of Sunny Point and 4.8 mi. NW of Juneau, Coast Mts.
History
Reportedly named for John Lemon, who in 1879 did some placer mining on the creek with James Hollywood. In 1880 he joined the Edmund Bean party of prospectors who blazed a trail over Chilkoot Pass to the headwaters of the Yukon (Dearmond, 1957, p. 29-30).