Sugar Tit (place) where U. S. 42 crosses Gunpowder Creek.

Back in the old days houses were cold and there was nothing like infant formula for small or premature babies. Often they did not live. People would take a rag and dip it in sugar and twist it into the shape of a nipple for the baby to suck. This became known, for obvious reasons, as a "sugar tit".

sug•ar-tit Pronunciation: (shoog'ur-tit"), —n. a piece of cloth containing moist sugar, wrapped to resemble a nipple and used to pacify an infant.
Also, sug•ar-teat.

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