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Ethridge is an incorporated town in Lawrence County in southern Middle Tennessee, on U.S. Route 43 a few miles north of Lawrenceburg, the county seat.

Ethridge began in the 1880s as a railroad stop called Hudson Springs, which was renamed in honor of Emerson Etheridge, a prominent mid-19th-century Tennessee politician and post–Civil War candidate for governor.

The present townsite stood at the crossing of two mid-19th-century cattle drovers' roads, and its railroad station, built in the late 1890s, was first called Wayne Station before being renamed Ethridge to end the confusion between the two stops.

By 1914 Ethridge had about 400 residents and was thriving as a lumber transloading station, with at least four lumber mills, a lumber finishing mill, five grocery stores, a hotel, and a tire pump factory.

The town declined after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the gradual replacement of rail traffic by highway traffic, and it was not incorporated until 1973.

The 2020 census counted 537 people in Ethridge, up from 465 in the 2010 census.

The 2000 census counted 210 households in Ethridge.

Ethridge is known for its concentration of Swartzentruber Amish; its Old Order Amish community dates to 1944, and horse-drawn buggy traffic on U.S. Route 43 is a routine sight.

Amish-run furniture and produce stands line U.S. Route 43 in the Ethridge area.

The headwaters of Little Shoal Creek lie just east of town, and the source of the Buffalo River lies just west of it.