Grinders Switch was also the fictional hometown of the comic character Minnie Pearl, created and portrayed at the Grand Ole Opry by comedian Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who grew up in the nearby Town of Centerville, Tennessee.
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon's father was a lumberman who shipped logs from the Grinders depot on the Centerville branch of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.
As I grow older, the place is no longer a little, abandoned landing switch on a railroad in Hickman County.
Grinders Switch is a state of mind – a place where there is no illness, no war, no unhappiness, no political unrest, no tears.
Charlie Daniels mentions southern rock band Grinderswitch in his 1975 song "The South's Gonna Do It", with the lyric that is also a play on the name of the town, "Well, the train to Grinders Switch is runnin' right on time and them Tucker Boys are cookin' down in Caroline".