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of Spring Creek, Madison Co TN 
Spring Creek Postoffice is thirteen miles northeast of Jackson at the crossing of the Trenton and Lexington road with the Jackson, Spring Creek and Huntington road. This is more a county or neighborhood post-office than a town. It was, however, incorporated on January 2, 1854. The Cumberland Presbyterian and Masonic Lodge, No. 193, erected a church and lodge room there in 1865. It also contains a Baptist Church and Madison College. Some fine estates lie near Pinson, twelve miles south of Jackson on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, in District No. 1. It is located on a small stream called Bear Creek. It is a thriving place of about 300 inhabitants. Pinson contains a good school building, a Baptist Church and a Methodist Church and Masonic Hall combined. Pinson is a good shipping point for the southern part of the county.
Source: Goodspeed 1886
Spring Creek grew up around the Haughton grist and flourmill. It was a thriving village, located about 13 miles easat of Jackson. Spring Creek was incorporated in 1854 by 1872 there was 500 people living there. They boasted ix stores a Masonic Lodge and a Cumberland Presbyterian Church. There were two schools, the Springdale Institute was founded by Jesse Taylor in 1870.
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