The Spring Hill Silo: Nearly a decade since its demolition, residents still remember the beloved landmark
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (WKRN) — Despite being torn down nearly a decade ago, one Spring Hill landmark remains a beloved part of the past for locals.
The exact history of Spring Hill's silo is not known by city officials. In late 2017, the silo was torn down to make way for a Chick-fil-A. Yet Spring Hill residents still hold on to what they considered a piece of history.
'This is a piece of the Spring Hill silo before they went ahead and knocked it down — the city, to build the Chick-fil-A,' said Nicola Stadler, holding a large piece of concrete slab. 'My daughter came home frantically one day and she said, 'Mom, they're already starting demolishing the silo! Can we go and get a piece? We want a piece!''
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In fact, the Stadler family ended up snagging two pieces of a landmark that once represented so much to Spring Hill residents.
'Once you saw the castle, you knew you were home,' Stadler told News 2.
Stadler said her daughter called the silo a 'castle' when she was young — another sign that the silo left impressions on multiple generations.
'It was a piece of history, and we miss it,' Stadler said.
The silo's own history is a great mystery; nobody knows much about it, what exactly it held, or how long it stood along Main Street. Years removed from its demolition and with a shopping center now in its place, Stadler said she figures only about 10% of the growing Spring Hill community even remember the silo at this point.
Thankfully, a fellow silo sympathizer found a way to memorialize the destroyed silo in the space it once dominated: a plaque.
'I just got it in my head one day,' Katrina Beckham said. 'I was like, 'What would be funny is if we could put up a permanent memorial for the silo because everybody loved it.''
Beckham and her late husband believed the silo deserved its little spot in Spring Hill history. Beckham's husband coordinated with the Chick-fil-A to allow a metal plaque to be installed near the drive-thru of the restaurant.
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Beckham also created a Facebook page in honor of the silo. It has about a thousand followers. But the plaque? Beckham said it was mostly a joke — one that has already stood the test of time.
'I've actually seen people taking selfies with it, or taking pictures of their kids around it. That just makes me smile,' said Beckham. 'We really did enjoy having the silo there. It's such a crazy thing that it wasn't being used — nobody knew anything about it, but it was just, like, a landmark for us. And we get to still remember it.'
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