7 Things About Spring Hill You Might Not Know

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3. Ewell Station

For those who lived in the vast, fertile farmland surrounding Spring Hill in the early years of the 20th century– when U.S. 31 was one of the only main routes north and south and went right through town– Spring Hill was the closest place with stores and shops and was the place to go get things.

One of the main ways people would arrive was by train. However, the train could not go directly into town. The local landowners and the town would not give the railroad their land, so the closest they could build to was about a mile outside of town.

The historic Ewell Farm, which was built in 1867 as the residence of General Richard S. Ewell (who served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War) became a train stop. By the 1920s, the farm was a working sheep and cattle farm. The owner gave the railroad right-of-way. So it became known as Ewell Station. A taxi cab, according to Spring Hill: Everybody Has a Story, would meet every train to give people a ride into town.

In the 1920s, there were stores on both sides of Main Street. There were: two cream stations, an icehouse, two barbershops, two meat markets, six grocery stores, one dry goods store, a drug store, a post office, bank and hardware store.

People from smaller towns nearby would make trips once or twice a year to see the sights and shop in the large, bustling town.