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WBIR.com | Knoxville, TN | Why do they call it that? History of Stinking Creek in Campbell County.

This is where my mother’s family comes from. The story was told to me as a child about the animals freezing in the frigid winter, their carcasses decaying with the spring thaw and causing the odor. I love the comment that the local residents don’t want to change the name because “it keeps most Yankees away”.