Sweet Lips, Tennessee | |
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| Coordinates: 35°24′30″N88°31′20″W / 35.40833°N 88.52222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| County | Chester |
| Elevation | 584 ft (178 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1303968 [1] |
Sweet Lips (or "Sweetlips") is an unincorporated community in Chester County, Tennessee, United States. [2]
The first settlers arrived in the 1820s. [3] Residents have claimed that the name comes from "settlers (or wandering hobos or thirsty Civil War soldiers, depending on whom you ask) who declared water from a creek to be 'sweet to the lips.'" [3] [4] [5] Alternatively, It may be named after Sweet Lips, the gun that a Tennessean soldier used to kill Patrick Ferguson who was leading an army of Loyalists to invade Tennessee on October 7, 1780. [6] It may also be named after George Washington's dog with the same name. [7] Sweet Lips has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. [3] [8] [9]
A 1986 profile on the community reported a population of 85, no stop signs or street lights, no post office, and that the former two-room school house was now the "Sweet Lips Grocery" store. [10] [11] The school closed in 1960. [12]
Some scenes from the 1973 movie Walking Tall were filmed in Sweet Lips. [13]
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