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Unincorporated community in Tennessee, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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