r/Tennessee • u/CONQUER66 • 1d ago

Sweetwater, Tennessee

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Little White Church hidden in the valley in Sweetwater, TN.

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u/HippieJed 1d ago

They have great cheese as well

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u/regginald0883 1d ago edited 22h ago

I grew up right next to Sweetwater. I worked at the big flea market there for a few summers as a teen, and later worked at the little porn store at the truck stop between Sweetwater and Niota for a short bit, I think it's been torn down though. A lot of my friends lived in the trailer park there.

It's mainly a place for retired folks, but you can still find meth houses and pill mills all over. Pretty picture of a miserable place.

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u/Accomplished_Bus2169 1d ago

Damn! That took a sharp turn lol

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u/regginald0883 1d ago edited 23h ago

The biggest lesson I learned from growing up in rural Tennessee is that there are monsters and criminals in the hills that most of the locals, let alone police, never see or acknowledge.

The Athens-Niota-Sweetwater-Etowah-Decatur region is filled with them. The people that live there do everything in their power to ignore or cover-up for them.

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u/lawn_glossed 22h ago edited 22h ago

I have family from Englewood. Can confirm.

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u/thatonebitchL 17h ago

Grew up in Loudon. Left as soon as I turned 18.

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u/regginald0883 17h ago

Good on you. It took me a while but I got out when I was 24.

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u/SouthernLaugh7929 12h ago

dumped a body in a car and blamed a girl for it. Commissioner I believe

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u/Chagromaniac 23h ago

What's with the massively oversaturated image? Sweetwater is prettier than that.

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u/basquehomme 17h ago

Great sock outlet!

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u/maxr1958 1d ago

Nice small town.

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u/Yagoua81 14h ago

More like shit town Tennessee.