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Whiteside is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Marion County, Tennessee, just north of the Tennessee-Georgia state line.

The Census Bureau counted Whiteside as a census-designated place in the 2020 census, recording 274 residents in 126 households across about 4 square miles.

The site was originally settled as a Cherokee town called Running Water, known in the Cherokee language as Amogayunayi.

Running Water was the town of Chickamauga Cherokee war chief Dragging Canoe, who lived there during the last decade of his life, until his death in 1792, while resisting American settlement.

After Indian Removal, European-American settlers renamed the community for James Anderson Whiteside (1803-1861), a Chattanooga attorney, railroad promoter, and land investor; the place was also known at different times as Aetna and Etna.

Whiteside grew up around the railroad, and the 986-foot Whiteside Tunnel, completed in 1858, was abandoned in the twentieth century, donated to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in 1968, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

During the Civil War, Confederate troops destroyed Whiteside's railroad trestle over the Running Water ravine; Union forces rebuilt it in 1863 for the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, and the rebuilt span washed away in a flood in 1867.

A post office opened at Whiteside in 1865, and the community's own ZIP code is 37396.

Interstate 24 passes through Whiteside and Tennessee State Route 134 runs by it, between Chattanooga to the east and Haletown to the west.

Whiteside Baptist Church is a longtime landmark of the community, which sits at about 800 feet in elevation in the narrow sliver of Marion County between the Tennessee River gorge and the Georgia line.