Permanent Lighting in Thompson's Station, TN
For Thompson's Station houses in rolling hills, Permanent Lighting Solutions supplies a slim track of permanent LED roofline lighting that our installers fit under the eave, and upkeep is no more than a rinse at gutter time.
Thompson's Station is the Williamson County town about 25 miles south of Nashville, set in rolling hills and pastoral countryside. Its houses get permanent, app-controlled LED roofline lighting: a slim track that licensed, insured and certified installers fit under the eave. After that, the color is a setting on your phone.
A town that grew up beside the railroad
Settlement here goes back to 1780, when Edward Swanson began a log cabin on land granted for his Revolutionary War service. The village was called White House in the early 1830s and Littlebury from 1836, after the postmaster, Littleberry Starks. The first trains arrived in August 1855 and made it a shipping point, with farmers driving hogs, sheep and cattle in to be loaded. Dr. Elijah Thompson donated the land for the village, and the name Thompson's Station took hold in 1856.
Trains stayed central to town life through the 1940s, when chemical companies hauled out the area's phosphate-rich dirt. Highways and trucking then thinned the freight, and the depot was dismantled in 1952. The Thompson's Station Community Association and local donors rebuilt it in the 1990s, and it is now Town Hall. A caboose arrived in 1995 and was later painted red and yellow for the L&N line that ran on these tracks.
The Battle of Thompson's Station
The fight came on March 5, 1863. Colonel John Coburn's Union brigade had left Franklin to scout south toward Columbia. Confederate forces under Earl Van Dorn hit it from the front while Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry rode around its left flank and into the rear. Out of ammunition and surrounded, Coburn surrendered with 1,220 of his men. The American Battlefield Trust puts total casualties at about 2,206, most of them Union.
Forrest's horse Roderick was killed in the fighting and is reportedly buried at Roderick Place, where a monument was dedicated on March 5, 2008. The Town marked the 150th anniversary in May 2013 with a recreation on Homestead Manor property, which was once part of the battlefield.
Old brick houses and a fast-growing town
Some of the oldest houses on the Town's timeline are brick. Spencer Buford and his wife built a two-story Federal style house on the knoll at what is now Roderick Place in 1801. Francis and Mary Giddens finished a three-story brick home in 1819 that was considered the manor of the community, and it still stands as Homestead Manor. When it was built, only one house stood between it and Columbia, Colonel Samuel Polk's, father of the future president.
Residents voted to incorporate in 1990, and on August 15 the community became the Town of Thompson's Station. The census counted 1,283 people in 2000, 2,194 in 2010 and 7,485 in 2020.
Preservation Park
About 200 acres in the middle of town, the park was a grazing pasture that was part of the battlefield. Most of it is held in a land trust with the State of Tennessee. The American Battlefield Trust and the Land Trust of Tennessee have helped the Town acquire an important tract of the battlefield. The Town opened the park in 2015, and two natural-surface trails, Battlefield Trail and Depot Trail, followed in 2017.
Battlefield Trail markers were made with the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area, and the park has a hilltop overlook. To find it, take Thompsons Station Road West by Town Center, cross the train tracks and go on for 350 yards. Hours are dawn to dusk.
Permanent Christmas lights in Thompson's Station
The system is an aluminum channel along the fascia or soffit, with the lights seated inside it. One controller sits indoors, the gutter and the roof surface stay free of fasteners, and the roofline is measured before the free estimate. The system page shows the parts, and the care page covers upkeep: the lights carry a rating of roughly 50,000 hours, and a rinse when you do the gutters is the routine.
For December, pick red and green in the app or set a sunset schedule once and leave it. The same lights take Halloween orange, the Fourth of July and your team's colors. Save each look as a preset and switch the whole house from the driveway. The app is free, with no monthly fee.
Nearby: Franklin and Nolensville
Thompson's Station sits just south of Franklin, and permanent lighting in Franklin has a page of its own. So does permanent lighting in Nolensville, in the northeast corner of Williamson County. Dates for nearby towns are on our 2026 holiday lights calendar.
One more Williamson County village has a page too. Leiper's Fork keeps its original grocery stores inside a National Register historic district, and an old roofline there keeps its shape while the channel follows it: permanent roofline lighting in Leiper's Fork.
Ask for a free lighting estimate in Thompson's Station
Your Thompson's Station address goes through the quote form, and the free estimate for that roofline is returned to you. On the pricing page you can see where a system starts, and the service areas page lists towns across Middle Tennessee.