April 5, 2012, The Spring Hill Informer

The Royal Park turnoff on Kedron Rd. takes you into a veritable backwoods teeming with businesses and good old fashioned country backdrops, especially if you come in the back way. You can do that by turning off Port Royal Rd. onto Tom Lunn Rd., alongside the Phoenix Metals building and just beyond the former Penske building. Stacks of wooden beehive boxes are off to the left as Tom Lunn doglegs left and eventually reenters Port Royal, but if you steer straight, which seems to be John Lunn Rd., you will gradually encounter a PAVEMENT ENDS sign. No fear. Keep going and you will presently approach the Royal Park business area. One such business is Monty Lowery's Stagecoach Auto Repair. Remote or not, Lowery reports that his technician stalls are constantly busy. Head east on John Lunn Rd. from there and you will see a NO OUTLET sign, a variation on DEAD END. Continuing gamely, up comes Brandywine Farm on the left and some beautiful Tennessee countryside with fields of roaming wild turkeys. At the end of accessible road, and lined to the right, Nashville Reddy Mix concrete trucks stretch six deep at times to provide pours for Spring Hill's multi-million dollar sewer expansion project headed by P.F. Moon Construction.
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When is this likely to happen again? Leading up to the April 22, 2001, city mayoral election, an incumbent and two former mayors were in the running. Ray Williams, the eventual winner, was the incumbent and George Jones and Freeman Cowherd the former mayors.
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John Maher, a major home builder in the area, was previously a math teacher in the Franklin Special School District, and a wrestling coach.
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Nasdaq Street runs from Main up the hill to slightly past Goodwill where it intersects with Longford Drive and changes in name to O’Hallorn Drive. The road continues, curves around and connects to Campbell Station Parkway, at which point it is an unnamed street (no sign). Even more confusing is that O’Hallorn, likely a misspelling for “O’Halloran,” was originally Nasdaq. Also, could “Longford” be a misspelling of “Langford”?
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Didja Know Dept.: The Saturn L-Series, built in Wilmington, Del., was based on an Opel model and rode on an Opel chassis.
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George Dickel master distiller John Lunn, a Vandy grad, is from Spring Hill. Based in Tullahoma, the Dickel whiskey brand has been endorsed over the years by such as Merle Haggard, which would seem to add to its authenticity.
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For the best book detailing Saturn's arrival in Spring Hill, the land and the people, find a copy of Joe Sherman's In the Rings of Saturn.