Boyds Creek, Tennessee

Boyds Creek, Tennessee

Boyds Creek is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. It is named for a small southward-flowing tributary of the French Broad River of the same name, which itself derives its name from a Virginian trader killed by a band of Cherokee Indians whose body was thrown into the stream. The creek was the site of a 1780 battle (The Battle of Boyd's Creek) between white settlers and Cherokee angry at their encroachment onto their hunting territory [http://www.smokykin.com/smhs/sevier.html] .

Geography

The community has a mean elevation of 899 feet (274 metres)Gnis2|1314721.


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