Sale Creek, Tennessee

Sale Creek, Tennessee takes its name from a sale held on its banks, of confiscated property taken from the British and Indians, by General Evan Shelby and his troops after their expedition into the Chickamauga country in 1779.
   The first white settlement in Hamilton County was made on this creek in 1807, when it was a part of Rhea County. Located 30 miles north of Chattanooga on Highway 27.