Places in The United States
- Sweet Home, Arkansas
- Sweet Home Central School District in Amherst and Tonawanda, New York
- Sweet Home High School (Amherst, New York)
- Sweet Home High School (Oregon)
- Sweet Home Mine in Colorado
- Sweet Home, Oregon
- Sweet Home, Texas
- Sweet Home, Guadalupe County, Texas
- Sweet Home, Lavaca County, Texas
- Sweet Home Independent School District
- Sweet Home, Lee County, Texas
- Sweethome, Oklahoma
- Sweet Home, Kentucky, was the fictional slave plantation from which the main character escaped in Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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