Funny Tennessee names

[Turkey Creek Tom]

There is Bone Cave in Van Buren County. It was named after a cave in the area where the bones of a giant sloth were found. The cave was also used for the mining of saltpeter for use in making gun powder during the war of 1812 and the Civil War.
There used to be a place in Van Buren County called "Billy won't work!"
I think it was a school.
In Warren County there was a community called "Shake Rag". Sometimes the late country music star Dottie West when asked where she was found would say "near Shake Rag."

[jabogitlu]

There's more than one Shake Rag. I wonder what its origins is, as it's a funny name. There's one in Greene County too.

[VolDude]

My HS football team would listen to the scores on WIVK on the way back from games, and we'd always get a kick out of Chuckey Doak High School. Sounds more like a overweight, adolesant movie character.

I like to imagine Deer Lodge TN previously housed a hotel for wild animals.

North of La Follette there's a place called Stinking Creek. I don't want to know why.

[scarletneon]

I too loved driving through Fly ... I also like Only, Difficult and Defeated.

this is not in Tennessee but in Kentucky: Big Bone Lick State Park. As my friend said once upon a time, it's bad enough that they would name a park Big Bone, but to add Lick to it ...

[jabogitlu]

My HS football team would listen to the scores on WIVK on the way back from games, and we'd always get a kick out of Chuckey Doak High School. Sounds more like a overweight, adolesant movie character.

Haha... that was my high school. We all always called it Choke a Duck. (Or there was one more vulgar, I'll leave that to you to figure out... )

[alxnrth]

I went to college at APSU in Clarksville & there's a street there called Lois Lane.

[Mrk9]

I was just lookin' at the TN map and noticed Burnt Church in Hardin County, odd name for a town. Anyone know the story on that?

[skinem]

Don't know that this is funny, but, I've never heard this name anywhere else before...there's a little community in Lincoln County called Camargo.