Spring Hill Information & Real Estate

spring_hill_198Spring Hill, Tennessee is located approximately thirty miles south of Nashville. The population was 7,715 at the 2000 census. The 2005 U.S. Census Bureau estimates the population is 17,148, making Spring Hill one of Tennessee's fastest-growing communities, and the 16th fastest growing in the United States.

Spring Hill estimates its population as of December 2006 to be 25,575. Spring Hill's municipal government has implemented the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights", meaning that no municipal tax increase can be implemented without a public referendum. Spring Hill is divided between Maury County, Tennessee and Williamson County, Tennessee. It boasts of rich historical sites, lush farmland, businesses, industry, and booming residential growth.  

For its first 80 years Spring Hill, Tennessee, was a quiet farming town. That all changed in 1985 when Spring Hill was selected as the site for a new manufacturing plant for "a new kind of car" by General Motors—Saturn.

Since becoming home to General Motors Saturn manufacturing facility, Spring Hill, Tennessee, has experienced continuing growth.  As Saturn emerged as one of the automobile success stories of the nineties, Spring Hill grew from around 1,000 people to more than 6,000 today.

In seeking to protect the site's historical and cultural legacy, GM Spring Hill has preserved the 1850 Greek Revival Rippavilla Mansion, Haynes Haven mansion, and an old horse barn. The old stone horse barn was renovated into the GM Spring Hill Welcome Center, and incorporates environmental education, such as: a map of site environmental features, overview of electric vehicle technology, water quality monitoring efforts with schools, plastics recycling information, and a statement of GM's environmental policy. Public tours of the manufacturing area are available from the Welcome Center, and include some highlights of GM Spring Hill's environmental efforts.

The town is also near the American Civil War Battle of Spring Hill. Spring Hill was the prelude to the Battle of Franklin.  On the night of November 28, 1864, Gen. John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee marched toward Spring Hill to get astride Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield’s Union army’s life line. Cavalry skirmishing between Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson’s Union cavalry and Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Confederate troopers continued throughout the day as the Confederates advanced.

Spring Hill Real Estate is in the Maury County School district, and offers some of the best ranked schools in middle Tennessee. The Spring Hill area also provides Private Schools.

 

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Spring Hill has many great neighborhoods like Campbell Station with homes offered in multiple price ranges, Belshire, Autumn Ridge with luxury homes, Hardins Landing, Spring Hill Place, Wyngate Estates, Benevento, and King's Creek Golf Club an Arnold Palmer designed golf course with wonderful amenities. If you are looking for Condo living in the Spring Hill area, then you will want to consider the Highlands at Campbell Station north of town in the Thompsons Station Area.

Thompsons Station Real Estate offers homes in wonderful scenic country settings in neighborhoods like Campbell Station, Toll Gate Village, and Bridgemore Village. You will also find great luxury, and equestrian homes in this community just off I-65. Thompsons Station only a 15-minute drive from Franklin and Cool Springs Galleria, one of the largest shopping and dining Meccas in middle Tennessee.

If I can be of service in fulfilling your Spring Hill Tennessee Real Estate needs, or in any of the Nashville area communities, please do not hesitate to contact me at your convenience. You can reach me at 615-289-4141 or contact me through my site, if you have any questions regarding my REALTOR® services. I am looking forward to creating another happy client!  

 

History of Spring Hill  

Once a beautiful wilderness, Spring Hill was an ideal hunting ground claimed by the Cherokee. Tribes of Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Shawnee also hunted in the area. "The location of the original settlement is the meeting point of three land grants. Lands belonging to Revolutionary War soldiers, Major George Doherty, John Hardin and Major Ezekiel Polk, who received these grants in lieu of money, came together at a point near the intersections of Duplex Road, Old Military Road and U.S. Highway 31.

The first settlers arrived in 1808 and began to clear land and build log cabins. Albert Russel is said to have been the first to clear land. He built a log cabin on a hill above the spring and named his home 'Anne's Bower.' The property was later known as the Old Tanyard Spring. By 1809, a settlement had been established. As early as 1810, settlers petitioned the Maury County Court for a road from Columbia to Sanford's cotton gin. As early as 1816, William Williford began a school for boys and girls.

In 1824, Henry Wade purchased the land that once belonged to Russel, which was also the Old Camp Ground property. It was he who visualized a town. He had a survey made and began to sell lots along what is today Main Street (Hwy 31). People wanted to name the town Petersburg, in honor of Father Peters. He, however, would not let the family name be used. It was then suggested that the settlement be called by a name long familiar to most of them.  For some 16 years, they had taken their wooden buckets and said, 'I'm going over to the spring hill and get some water.' The little settlement took the name Spring Hill in 1825.

On November 29, Hood’s infantry crossed Duck River and converged on Spring Hill. In the meantime, Maj. Gen. Schofield reinforced the troops holding the crossroads at Spring Hill. In late afternoon, the Federals repulsed a piecemeal Confederate infantry attack. During the night, the rest of Schofield’s command passed from Columbia through Spring Hill to Franklin. This was, perhaps, Hood’s best chance to isolate and defeat the Union army. The engagement has been described as “one of the most controversial non-fighting events of the entire war.