Whiteside, TN

Whiteside is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Tennessee. Whiteside was originally settled as a Cherokee town in the late eighteenth century. After Indian Removal, European-American settlers moved in and later named it after James Anderson Whiteside, attorney, Chattanooga railroad promoter and land investor. In Whiteside, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Whiteside, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Whiteside lies at an elevation of 807 feet. Tennessee State Route 134 passes by Whiteside, which is located between Chattanooga and Haletown, just north of the Tennessee-Georgia state line. For the decade preceding his death in 1792, Cherokee war chief Dragging Canoe lived at Running Water, a Chickamauga town.