Odrick's Corner

When naming the new Silver line stops, Spring Hill was sort of an aspirational choice. While people in the area hope it will one day become a well-known community, as of now it doesn’t really exist as much more than a road. One real community near the station, though, is Odrick’s Corner. The neighborhood was named after Alfred Odrick, a former slave and carpenter who purchased the area in 1872. By 1879, the neighborhood had a one room school house named Odrick’s School. The community used the school in many ways—they held community meetings there, as well as the first services of the Shiloh Baptist Church. Though the schoolhouse was destroyed in the 1950s, the church still operates to this day.