Editing Trimble, Tennessee (section)

== History ==
The town was first settled in 1873 on land owned by local Jesse Pierce. By the end of the year, a saloon was in operation, operated by Gammons & Fowlkes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Goodspeeds History of Tennessee |date=1887 |publisher=Goodspeed Publishing Company |location=Nashville, TN}}</ref> The following year, the town was named Trimble Station, when the Paducah & Memphis Railroad extended its line from [[Troy, Tennessee|Troy Station, TN]] south to the Dyer County line. Construction of this extension was completed on May 15, 1874.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Poor |first=Henry V. |title=Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1874-1875 |date=1874 |publisher=H.V. & H.W. Poor |volume=VII |location=New York, NY |pages=408}}</ref> The line was not extended south to Dyersburg until June of 1882 by the Chesapeake, Ohio, & Southwestern Railroad, a predecessor of the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad and the [[Illinois Central Railroad]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Poor |first=Henry V. |title=Manual of the Railroad of the United States for 1882 |date=1882 |publisher=H.V. and H.W. Poor |volume=XV |location=New York, NY |pages=492}}</ref>

In 1884, a school named Trimble Academy was chartered in the town.<ref name=":0" />

In 2014, the Full Throttle Distillery was opened in Trimble, on the site of the former Trimble Cotton Gin. The distillery is owned by Michael Ballard, who also owns the Full Throttle Saloon in [[Sturgis, South Dakota]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-28 |title=Full Throttle set to open boutique distillery doors Memorial Day weekend |url=https://www.eptrail.com/2022/04/28/full-throttle-set-to-open-boutique-distillery-doors-memorial-day-weekend/ |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=Estes Park Trail-Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref>