Whiteside, Tennessee
Whiteside, Tennessee | ||
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ZIP code 37396[4] | ||
Area code | 423 | |
GNIS feature ID | 1314101[2] |
Whiteside (formerly Aetna, Etna and Running Water) is an
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Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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2020 | 274 | — | |
U.S. Decennial Census[6] |
History
For the decade preceding his death in 1792, Cherokee war chief Dragging Canoe lived at Running Water (Cherokee: ᎠᎼᎦᏳᎾᏱ, romanized: Amogayunayi), a Chickamauga town. He and his Cherokee followers were opposed to European-American settlement in their lands; they moved to more distant areas of the frontier to avoid the Americans.
The community of Whiteside developed later at this site, named for a major railway investor. Shortly before the Civil War, a railway was constructed in this area. The terrain required also the construction of a tunnel and bridge. Colonel James Whiteside was a major stockholder in the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad. It took over construction of what is known as Whiteside Tunnel in 1858 through Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga when the Chattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown & Charleston Railroad went bankrupt. The tunnel is 986 feet (301 m) long. This railroad was later acquired by the Southern Railway (now the Norfolk-Southern) for its Knoxville-to-Birmingham main route.[7]
The Whiteside bridge was constructed on another part of the route. Confederate troops destroyed it during the Civil War, but Union forces rebuilt the Whiteside trestle in 1863, for what was then known as the
These were considered important strategic structures. After the tunnel was abandoned, because of changes in rail standards and patterns of use, it was donated in 1968 to the
The Tennessee River did not become navigable west of Chattanooga, as an alternate route, until after construction of the Hales Bar Dam and associated locks, which opened in 1913.
References
- ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whiteside, Tennessee
- ^ "Census Population API". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ^ "Whiteside TN ZIP Code". unitedstateszipcodes.org. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
- ^ Larry Miller, Tennessee Place Names (Indiana University Press, 2001), p. 222.
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
- ^ a b "TVRM Whiteside Tunnel, Hamilton County, Tennessee". Historic and Notable Bridges of the US. 2002–2020. Retrieved February 1, 2021.