Permanent Lighting in College Grove, TN
Permanent Lighting Solutions can link up to 4 controllers on one account, so a large College Grove house with more roofline than one controller can carry still behaves as one system.
College Grove is an unincorporated community in southeastern Williamson County, ZIP code 37046, where village streets give way to farmland. Licensed, insured and certified installers fit each one with an aluminum channel to match the trim, and the lights are seated inside it.
From Poplar Grove to College Grove
Williamson County's village plan dates the founding of College Grove to about the start of the 1800s, when James Allison bought 400 acres on Grove Creek in the southeast corner of the county. William and Mary Ogilvie had already come from North Carolina and settled nearby, Allison married one of their daughters, and the plan names the two families as the early founders. The plan adds that the record rests on memoirs and family lineage, with gaps where natural disasters destroyed documents.
Before Allison the land was a set of farms known as Poplar Grove, after the stands of poplar where the local school was later built. When the Post Office chose a site there in 1861, a Poplar Grove already existed, so the residents picked College Grove instead, in honor of the two schools in the community: one for boys and a seminary for girls.
A toll road, a railroad and a bank
The main road through the village began in 1840 as a toll road and became Horton Highway. Nearby farmers maintained it with sand from Otter Creek, hauled by their own horses, mules and wagons. The railroad came around 1914 on the line then called the Lewis and Northern, and the workers who laid it settled in a neighborhood called New Town, which the plan says still shows traces.
The Bank of College Grove was chartered in 1911, and its building is still a fixture downtown. Telephone service arrived in 1916 through the United Phone Company. Powell Covington started the Feed and Seed Mill in the mid-1930s and moved it in 1937 to the site where the plan found it. Six places near the village are on the National Register of Historic Places, among them the William Allison House, the William Ogilvie House, the Dr. Urban Owen House, the bank and the College Grove Methodist Church, with Parks Place on Cox Road.
Overall Creek and the wildlife area
Overall Creek, a tributary of the Harpeth River, crosses the village from southwest to northeast on the east side of Horton Highway. The plan says many properties on that side lie in the 100-year floodplain, and that most of the land east of the highway is floodplain, mature woodland or steep slope. The Haley-Jacqueth Wildlife Management Area is a 230-acre farm that Alfred and Eula Lee Haley Jacqueth gave to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency so it would stay protected, and it shelters deer, turkey, quail, songbirds, raccoons and rabbits.
In the county's land survey, the village held about 157 parcels on 804 acres. Houses were 110 of the parcels but only 144 acres, while nine farm parcels covered 327 acres, which the plan credits for much of the village's character. The wider College Grove community runs about 64 square miles and matches the ZIP code, and the county counted roughly 3,000 people in it when the plan was written.
Schools, the Artsitorium and the community center
The plan says the old College Grove High School, built in the 1950s and closed in 1992, was saved from demolition and restored as the College Grove Artsitorium, a building for the performing and visual arts. The College Grove Elementary campus, off Arno-College Grove Road, has athletic fields, and the plan lists Lions Club Park among the county's recreation sites in the village.
Williamson County Parks and Recreation runs the College Grove Community Center at 8601 Horton Highway, with a gymnasium, a meeting room, classrooms, a wellness center, senior activities and outdoor pickleball courts. Horton Highway is also the village's only arterial road, and it links College Grove to Rutherford County, State Route 840, Nolensville and Nashville.
Christmas lights for a College Grove farmhouse
A farmhouse with a long porch, a barn-style garage and a main roof can have more edge than one controller can run, so the work is planned in zones and, where needed, in more than one controller. One controller carries up to 8 zones, each running its own scene, and the extra controllers sit on the same account. The system page shows the channel up close, and the care page says what is covered.
The app holds recurring schedules, sunrise and sunset timers, and holiday looks booked weeks ahead. Red and green carry December, and warm white covers an ordinary evening. Ready-made looks come with the app and your own can be saved beside them, and the presets page lets you try them first.
Nearby: Nolensville and Murfreesboro
Permanent lighting in Nolensville and permanent lighting in Murfreesboro have pages of their own. Horton Highway leads to Nolensville and into Rutherford County, and the Nashville Christmas lights page covers the metro area.
Another unincorporated Williamson County community, Arrington, has its own page too: permanent lighting in Arrington.
A free estimate for your College Grove roofline
Give the quote form your College Grove address and the roofline estimate is free. If you want the numbers first, the pricing page breaks down what goes into a quote, and service areas lists the rest of the territory.