Permanent Lighting in Leiper's Fork, TN
The app that runs a Permanent Lighting Solutions system in Leiper's Fork carries no monthly fee, no annual fee and no subscription, and every available feature in it is free.
Leiper's Fork is a village in western Williamson County, and the Natchez Trace Parkway runs along its northern edge. Roofline lighting here is a trim-colored aluminum channel that holds the lights, put up by licensed, insured and certified installers.
A crossroads on the Trace
Families from North Carolina and Virginia settled the Leiper's Fork area in the late 1700s, on land grants of 320 acres or more that North Carolina gave to Revolutionary soldiers for their service. The village stands on part of Col. Jesse Steed's grant, which Jesse Benton bought. Travelers on the Natchez Trace passed through the Benton homestead and called the settlement Bentontown, and Hillsboro in time replaced that name. A historic marker still identifies the home site of Thomas Hart Benton, later a U.S. senator from Missouri.
A post office came in 1818, as the village grew on the National Road from Nashville to Natchez. Another Hillsboro, in Coffee County, was already on the map, so the post office took the name of the creek through the village instead. Local historians still argue over which Leiper it honors: Captain James Leiper, killed at Fort Nashboro in the Battle of the Bluffs in 1781, or his brother Hugh, who surveyed the land.
On the evening of April 29, 1909, a tornado devastated the area, and it is still counted among the worst natural disasters to hit Williamson County. In 1911 the booming village needed housing, and J.L. Sweeney's farm was subdivided into the lots that became Elm, Sycamore and Joseph Streets. Sweeney was also responsible for the village's first water system, which brought water from a hillside spring to several households.
The school that became a community center
Hillsboro High School, a private academy for grades one through twelve, opened in 1890 under Professor William Anderson. It closed in 1904, and the county school board bought the campus the next year. Lightning burned the building to the ground in 1930. The replacement, built in 1931, had classrooms and a gymnasium, and local businesses helped raise the money and materials for the gym.
In 1998 the old Hillsboro School became the Hillsboro-Leiper's Fork Community Center, which Williamson County Parks and Recreation runs at 5325 Old Highway 96 West. It has a gymnasium, a wellness center, a meeting room, classrooms, an arts and crafts classroom, a walking trail, youth baseball fields, and an outdoor playground and pavilion. The county's plan for the village adds a public library branch and a senior center.
The village today
The Natchez Trace Parkway is the village's northern boundary, and Leiper's Fork creek is its southern one. Two large parcels east and west of downtown are permanently protected through the Land Trust for Tennessee, and the first farms to give easements to the new trust protected 450 acres at the gateways to the village.
Many of the old buildings have been saved and restored, among them original grocery stores, a doctor's office and the building that housed the county's first female academy. Today they hold restaurants and shops, alongside antique stores, a woodworking shop, galleries and inns. The village is a National Register historic district, and the state's Discover Tennessee Trails and Byways program features it on two driving trails, the Old Tennessee Trail and Nashville's Trace Trail.
Christmas lights on an old Leiper's Fork roofline
An old roofline keeps the shape it has, and the channel follows it, with each corner cut and mitered to its own angle instead of bent. By day the lights are off and the roof edge shows a line under the eave: nothing on the face of the house, nothing on the roof, no cords and no box outside. The system page has the close-up, and the care page covers what is covered and what upkeep there is.
The app offers over 16 million colors, schedules that follow sunrise and sunset, and voice control through Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri. Red and green fit December, and a warm white fits the other eleven months. Nothing monthly or annual is charged for the app, geofencing comes at no extra cost, and the presets page lets you try the looks before you decide.
Nearby: Franklin and Thompson's Station
Permanent lighting in Franklin and permanent lighting in Thompson's Station have pages of their own, and the Nashville Christmas lights page links out to the wider area. Toward Franklin, the planned community of Westhaven has a lake, a golf course and a page of its own.
The Natchez Trace Parkway that borders the village on the north also passes within a few miles of Fairview's center. For its houses, see permanent Christmas lights in Fairview.
Start with a free estimate for your Leiper's Fork house
Give the quote form your Leiper's Fork street and an installer will call you; the free estimate for that roofline follows. Read how pricing works first if you like, and the service areas page shows where else the work reaches.