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Thompson's Station is in the 3rd Voting district. The area later to become Thompson's Station was beginning to be settled as early as 1799 by pioneers, mostly from Virginia, and North Carolina. The pioneers had received land grants for service in the Revolutionary War. Some of the first families into the area were the James Bufords, Chapman Whites, Francis Giddens, and Hardy Murfrees. According to Tennessee Postoffices and Postmaster Appointments, 1799 - 1984, the community was called Whit House in 1833.
In 1836, the name was changed to Littlebury or Littleberry, apparently after Littleberry R. Starks who was appointed postmaster that same year. In 1856, Dr. Elijah Thompson gave land on which the village was built. From this time, the community has been called Thompson's Station. Dr. Thompson was instumental in securing funds for the railroad which made Thompson's Station a prosperous shipping center for southern Williamson County. By 1886 the community had from 100 to 200 inhabitants, according to Goodspeed's History of Williamson County.
In 1866 the train depot was built, probably to replace the one destroyed during the Battle of Thompson's Station in 1863. The first record of a school in the Thompson's Station area was found in 1843 in the Scholastic School census for the 11th District. The earliest church was the Thompson's Station Church of Christ thought to have been built in 1859. The Methodist church was organized about 1873 and the present sanctuary completed in 1876. An 1878 map of Thompson's Station shows several businesses near the railroad including a drug store. Several grocery stores operated from time to time.
A fire swept through the row of businesses in 1906 destroying a broom factory and the office of Dr. John William Greer, the resident physician. To accommodate the thriving business, the Thompson's Station Bank was built in 1913 and is the only historic commercial building still standing. With the demise of the railroad, the business section of Thompson's Station was no more and for years has contained only two stores, a postoffice, and a garage.
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