 Whiteside is situated along Tennessee State Route 134 between Chattanooga and Haletown, just north of the Tennessee-Georgia state line.For the decade preceding his death in 1792, Dragging Canoe lived at Running Water, a Chickamauga Cherokee town.Railroad tracks, Whiteside train tunnel and Whiteside trestle 1863 make Whiteside a significant location in the passage through the Tennessee River valley from Chattanooga to points west.