Trimble Station, on the railroad, seventeen miles northeast from Dyersburg, has about 300 inhabitants, and was founded in 1873 upon the land of Jesse Pierce, and during the winter of that year Gammons & Fowlkes opened a saloon. The next business house was Friar & Co.'s drug store; the dry goods store of Pierce & Co. was the next, and then followed the grocery store of James Mitchell & Co. The business of the present is as follows: Hollaman & Co., F. M. Baker, dry goods; Jesse Pierce, dry goods and groceries; W. F. Pierce, groceries and hardware; E. McMillan, drugs; J. D. Coldough, blacksmith; S. Lane, saw-mill; Holloman & Co., grist-mill; Pierce, Jetung & Co., steam cotton-gin. Drs. J. H. Smith and F. P. Lawrence are the physicians.