Thompsons Station Information & Real Estate

thompsons_station_depot_194Thompson's Station is located 7 miles south of Franklin, and adjacent to Spring Hill. Incorporated in 1990 with a population of 791. A special census of Thompson's Station was completed in 1995 with a total population of 971. Thompson's Station is in the 3rd Voting district.

The area later to become Thompson's Station was beginning to be settled as early as 1799 by pioneers, mostly from Virginia, and North Carolina. The pioneers had received land grants for service in the Revolutionary War. 

Some of the first families into the area were the James Bufords, Chapman Whites, Francis Giddens, and Hardy Murfrees.

According to Tennessee Post offices and Postmaster Appointments, 1799 - 1984, the community was called Whit House in 1833. In 1836, the name was changed to Littlebury or Littleberry, apparently after Littleberry R. Starks who was appointed postmaster that same year. In 1856, Dr. Elijah Thompson gave land on which the village was built.

From this time, the community has been called Thompson's Station. Dr. Thompson was instrumental in securing funds for the railroad which made Thompson's Station a prosperous shipping center for southern Williamson County. By 1886 the community had from 100 to 200 inhabitants, according to Goodspeed's History of Williamson County.

In 1866 the train depot was built, probably to replace the one destroyed during the Battle of Thompson's Station in 1863. The first record of a school in the Thompson's Station area was found in 1843 in the Scholastic School census for the 11th District. The earliest church was the Thompson's Station Church of Christ thought to have been built in 1859. The Methodist church was organized about 1873 and the present sanctuary completed in 1876. An 1878 map of Thompson's Station shows several businesses near the railroad including a drug store. Several grocery stores operated from time to time.

A fire swept through the row of businesses in 1906 destroying a broom factory and the office of Dr. John William Greer, the resident physician. To accommodate the thriving business, the Thompson's Station Bank was built in 1913 and is the only historic commercial building still standing. With the demise of the railroad, the business section of Thompson's Station was no more and for years has contained only two stores, a post office, and a garage.

In 1989, Spring Hill was chosen as the site of General Motors' new plant which would design and produce the Saturn automobile. Being so near Thompson's Station, it has brought an explosion of residential developments to the area. In 1990 the town was incorporated to stop encroaching annexation from Spring Hill.

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

 

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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 is adjacent to Spring Hill with a great golf course neighborhood like Kings Creek, and only a 15-minute drive from Franklin and Cool Springs Galleria, one of the largest shopping and dining Meccas in middle Tennessee.

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