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Neighborhood guide · East

Arrington & College Grove.

The county's east, where there is no town. Two crossroads on State Route 96 and Horton Highway, a vineyard on a hog farm, a Greg Norman course and a Tom Fazio one, and the only part of Williamson County still zoned for a house on five acres. This guide is both communities and the roads between them: the club side of Arrington around Kings' Chapel, the production side of College Grove around Reeds Vale, the two gated courses, the horse farms, and the villages of Triune and Bethesda at the edges. What the $1.30 county-only rate buys and what it does not, which membership comes with the deed, what a STEP system is and why the HOA bill says so, and why I-840 makes this the shortest drive in the county to an airport and the longest to a grocery.

Arrington, TN 37014 · College Grove, TN 37046 Unincorporated Williamson County · No city tax, no special school district Built 1800 to 2026 Updated September 7, 2026

Neighborhood video. Ninety seconds of B-roll: Route 96 through Arrington at 7:15 with the widening barrels and a horse trailer ahead of you, the Kings' Chapel gate and the 1815 chapel behind it, a Saturday afternoon on the vineyard hill with the band setting up, the Grove's Wildings Boulevard gate, the Bank of College Grove corner on Horton Highway, and a five-acre lot on Arno Road with a perc-test flag in it. No narration.

B-roll in production
$1.5M
Median, both zips
Arrington $1,516,152 on 138 sales; College Grove $1,491,554 on 263
$352–$359
Price per sq ft
$295 at Falls Grove; $555 at the Grove; $1,087 at Troubadour
0.45 ac
Median lot
In the subdivisions; 43 College Grove sales last year were on five acres or more
9–16 days
On market
Builder closings pull it down; a pre-2022 resale in College Grove takes 29
$100–$715
Dues per month
Plus the club where it is mandatory: $7,500 at Kings' Chapel, $50,000 to $100,000 at the Grove
21 min
To downtown Franklin
Free-flow from Arrington, 12.8 miles; 25 from College Grove. Nashville is 39 to 43
Good fit for Club-community families Golf buyers with a membership budget Horse and acreage buyers I-840 commuters to Murfreesboro or BNA Page High families

01 · The place

Two crossroads, three club gates, and the county's last five-acre zoning.

Arrington was Petersburg until the post office came in 1858 and took the creek's name; the railroad gave it a depot in 1914. College Grove was Harpeth, then Poplar Grove, and became College Grove when its post office opened in 1860, for the two schools the Allison and Webb families had just built, the Cary and Winn Male Academy and a Methodist seminary for girls. By the 1880s it had a hundred residents and three cotton gins, and the bank, the 1888 Methodist church, and the Ogilvie house from about 1800 are on the National Register. Neither place ever incorporated. What governs them is the Williamson County Commission, which in 2013 put nearly all of this land in a Rural Preservation district that requires five acres for a house unless a developer sets most of a farm aside as a conservation subdivision, and which since 2020 has drawn special area plans for the three villages here: Arrington, adopted in March 2025; College Grove; and Triune, where the crossroads has a 1962 saddle club and a castle.

Onto that grid three developers put three gates. John Powell broke ground on Kings' Chapel in 2006, 700 acres on Route 96 with 350 of them in conservation, a heated saltwater pool, a restaurant with a chef, and, on its original 1815 foundation, a rebuilt Methodist chapel from the camp-meeting days; it is now 420-plus houses at a $1.85 million median and 47 percent of every sale in Arrington. The Grove opened Greg Norman's course in College Grove in 2012 and 2013 on 1,100 acres, Golf Digest's eighth-ranked course in the state, with a spa, an indoor riding arena, and a $50,000 or $100,000 membership that comes with the house; Escalante Golf bought it in October 2023, LIV Golf drew 40,000 people to it in June 2024, and it is in its final phase at a $3.06 million median. And Discovery Land Company rebuilt the old Hideaway at Arrington as Troubadour, 908 acres, 375 homesites, a Tom Fazio course, a membership of about $200,000, and eleven sales last year from $3.45 million to $13.75 million, the county's top. Around them, on the same five-acre rule, the production builders found the conservation loophole: Reeds Vale closed 100 houses last year on lots of a third of an acre, and Falls Grove, Hardeman Springs, High Park Hill, Pine Creek, and Fiddler's Glen add up to more.

The rest is the country the rule was written for. College Grove closed 46 acreage sales last year at a $1,507,500 median on five to 32-plus acres, most with a barn and some with an arena, and 43 of its 263 sales sat on five acres or more. Kix Brooks bought the cattle farm next to Kip Summers' vines in 2004 and opened Arrington Vineyards on the hill in July 2007; 95 acres, 16 of them vines, and a free band on the lawn every weekend from April to October. Milcrofton sells the water, a volunteer department with a 2014 ISO rating of 5 runs the Arrington station, the county convenience center on Arno-College Grove Road takes the trash, and every house is on a septic tank or a shared drip field, because there is no sewer and there will not be one. I-840, finished in 2012, crosses Route 96 on a hill without a ramp; you get on it at Arno Road or at Triune, and from there Murfreesboro is 24 minutes, I-65 is 23, and the airport is 41. The nearest full grocery is the Publix in Nolensville, 14 minutes, or Berry Farms, 20.

Who moves here

Families who bought the club before the house: Kings' Chapel's pool and restaurant, the Grove's course and arena, Troubadour's Fazio and its field club. Golfers with a membership budget, which at the Grove means $50,000 to $100,000 up front and $312 to $907 a month for the life of the house. Horse people, for whom Rock-N-Country's large-animal practice on Arno Road, the Triune saddle club, and a five-acre lot with a pasture already fenced are the amenities. Commuters whose desk is in Murfreesboro, at the airport, or anywhere I-840 reaches faster than I-65 does. Page High families, who get the state's eleventh-ranked high school and a 2023 elementary at the same rate as the farms. And people leaving Franklin or Brentwood for a house of 4,300 square feet on the county's $1.30 with no city, which is the deal every subdivision here sells.

What it is not

Cheap for what it is, close to anything, or served. The median is $1.5 million in both zips, and the eight Arrington sales under $850,000 were the exception; Fiddler's Glen at $902,000 is the only sub-million new construction east of Nolensville. There is no restaurant a nonmember can eat dinner in, no grocery, no ER, no library open on a weekend, and no sidewalk outside a gate. The sheriff is the police. A College Grove resale from before 2022 takes 29 days to sell and the Grove's take 58, against 9 for the builders' closings. And the five-acre rule cuts both ways: it keeps the view, and it means the next subdivision arrives as 100 houses on a farm at once, with a county hearing like the one Triune has on September 10.

02 · The pockets

Two club sides, one production side, the farms, and the villages at the edges.

Arrington first, then College Grove, then the country between. The membership column is the one most buyers skip and should not; the sewer column is the one the inspector will ask about. Every pocket zones Page unless the row says otherwise.

PocketWhere, and whenWhat you findLast 12 months
Arrington's club side2007–2026 · Arrington Elementary · Route 96 at Cox RoadKings' Chapel on Route 96, Hardeman Springs on the vineyard's hill, Fox Farms behind themKings' Chapel: 700 acres, a gate, 15 sections from 2007 to now, 3,590 to 7,868 sq ft on a third to 1.2 acres, Drees for a third of the sales, the rest by Kings Chapel Realty, RG Custom, Tennessee Valley, Willow Branch, and Hewn; dues $1,200 a year and a mandatory club, $7,500 at closing and a $75 monthly minimum at the restaurant. Hardeman Springs: 162 acres, 118 houses in four sections since 2020, no gate, a pool and trails, $145 a month, the highest price per foot in the zip. Fox Farms: 44 lots, gated, all to be built, $1.8 million to $2.86 million on the list, $2,100 to $2,400 a year. Community wastewater on all three.Kings' Chapel 54 · $1.85M · $373 / sq ft · 13.5 days; Hardeman Springs 15 · $1.9M · $395; Fox Farms 0 closed, 10 under contract
Arrington's other side2019–2026 · Arrington Elementary · Cox Road and Fiddlers GlenCox Road south of the school, and the streets off Route 96 toward TriuneHigh Park Hill by Drees and CastleRock, the zip's second-biggest seller, with the lowest dues in it at about $650 to $710 a year and 22 under contract; Pine Creek by Crescent Homes on Cox Road; Fiddler's Glen by Pulte, the only new construction in Arrington under $1 million; Arrington Ridge's four 2021 houses on STEP systems; and behind them Black Hawk's 2.2-acre lots at $2.45 million, Burning Tree Farms, Lake Colonial on Osburn Road, and Hidden Valley Farms.High Park Hill 25 · $1.31M · 10 days; Pine Creek 10 · $1.06M; Fiddler's Glen 7 · $902K; Black Hawk 6 · $2.45M
College Grove's club side2012–2026 · College Grove Elementary · Arno Road and Eudailey CovingtonThe Grove off Wildings Boulevard, Troubadour on the old Hideaway land toward Route 96The Grove: 1,100 acres, four gates, about 500 homes on a quarter acre to 1.9, 3,600 to 10,085 sq ft by Legend, Trace, Ford Classic, Davis, Stonegate, and Hatcliff at a $475-a-foot construction minimum, the Manor House, the pool with the slide, Rosemary Spa, the equestrian center, and the Norman course; dues about $249 to $276 a month, and the membership with the deed. Troubadour: 908 acres, 375 homesites, the Fazio course, $596 to $715 a month, and a membership of about $200,000 to join and $40,000 a year; Discovery Land's field club. Community wastewater and Milcrofton water at both.The Grove 56 · $3.06M · $555 / sq ft · 58 days (new construction 33 at $3.24M); Troubadour 11 · $6.2M · $1,087 / sq ft · 60 days
College Grove's production side2014–2026 · Arrington or College Grove Elementary · Lampkins Bridge and Arno RoadReeds Vale on Lampkins Bridge Road, Falls Grove across from the Grove, the McDaniel streetsReeds Vale by Signature Homes: the biggest seller in either zip, 2023 to now, on 0.24 to 0.65 acres, a lodge, a beach-entry pool, pickleball, $115 to $125 a month, and a third section of 64 lots on 133 acres platted in 2024; zoned Arrington Elementary. Falls Grove by Natelli: 381 houses on 500 acres in eight sections from 2014 to 2022, the Jones Company and Ryan Homes, a clubhouse, pool, tennis, and a putting green, $150 a month, no gate; the only established resale market here. McDaniel Estates and McDaniel Farms, Vineyard Valley by Celebration.Reeds Vale 100 · $1.42M · $337 / sq ft; Falls Grove 23 · $980K · $295 · 17 days; McDaniel Estates 12 · $1.0M; McDaniel Farms 7 · $1.375M; Vineyard Valley 5 · $989K
The five-acre country1800–2026 · Page, Bethesda, or Stewarts Creek · everywhere the subdivisions are notCox Road, Arno Road, Patton Road, Giles Hill, Osburn, Eudailey Covington, and the roads to Bethesda and PeytonsvilleThe farms the zoning was written for: five to 32-plus acres with a barn, a fenced pasture, sometimes an arena, a 1990s brick house or a 2000s custom or a farmhouse from the 1850s, on a well or Milcrofton, on septic, under greenbelt if it is 15 acres and farmed. St James on Cox Road, five-acre minimum lots at $4.9 million to $5.8 million, zoned Bethesda and Summit rather than Page; Grove Park's 2004 five-acre lots with no HOA; Drumright Hills and Belcastle on acreage at $2.4 million to $5 million.College Grove acreage 46 · $1.51M; 43 sales on 5+ acres; St James 1 · $5.79M; Drumright Hills 2 · $2.4M–$2.55M; Belcastle 2 · $3M–$5.03M
The villages, and the Rutherford edge1828–2026 · Page, or Stewarts Creek · the crossroadsTriune at Route 96 and Horton Highway; College Grove village at Horton and Arno; Bethesda to the southwest; Almaville Road to the eastTriune: the 1828 Hardeman academy site, Castle Gwynn and the May Renaissance Festival, Triune Baptist, the market and the gas at the interstate, and a rezoning fight over 31 acres at 5157 Murfreesboro Road, TCA-1 to TCA-4, with a planning commission hearing September 10, 2026. College Grove village: the bank, the 1888 church, the community center and its gym, the library, the post office. Bethesda: the 1844 church, the 1850 Steele house, and the market open at 4:30 a.m. East of Almaville Road, about 4 percent of Arrington-address records sit in Rutherford County: Stewarts Creek schools and a $1.4885 rate.Rutherford side 16 of 401 records; the villages sell by the house, not the subdivision

Sources: MLS closed sales by subdivision, trailing 12 months to August 20, 2026 (nashvillehome.guru's 37014 and 37046 pages and subdivision pages; counts on the subdivision pages differ from the zip cuts by their refresh date); the Williamson County planning commission's 2024 and 2026 agendas for the wastewater and water bonds on Kings' Chapel, Hardeman Springs, the Grove, Reeds Vale, Pine Creek, and Fox Farms; kingschapellife.com, groveliving.com, and the Hetherington and Felix guides on the clubs. Jurisdiction from the county recorded on each sale; both communities are unincorporated, so the town-boundary check used on other guides in this series does not apply. Bands are for choosing a pocket, not pricing a house.

03 · Homes & market

What a house costs, and what you get for it.

The two zips closed 401 sales last year, from $143,000 for a College Grove lot-and-shell to $13.75 million at Troubadour, at a median of $1.5 million in each. Arrington's 138 sales ran at $352 a foot on a 4,360-square-foot house; College Grove's 263 at $359 on 4,256. The number that explains the rest is the builder: half of Arrington's sales and 59 percent of College Grove's were new construction, which is why the days on market read 9 and 15 while a resale takes 29 and a Grove house takes 58.

$1.52M
Arrington median
138 sales; $352 / sq ft; 15.5 days; 99.5% of ask; 32 sales over $2M
$1.49M
College Grove median
263 sales; $359 / sq ft; 9 days; the last 90 days $1.6M
$1.92M
Arrington new construction
52 closings; 10.5 days; 100% of ask; College Grove's 154 at $1.56M
$1.85M
Kings' Chapel
54 sales, 47% of Arrington; $373 / sq ft; sections 13 and later above $1.97M
$3.06M
The Grove
56 sales; $555 / sq ft; 58 days; $1.76M to $8M
$1.42M
Reeds Vale
100 sales, the most in either zip; $337 / sq ft; 0.34-acre lots
$980K
Falls Grove
23 resales; $295 / sq ft; 17 days; 97.4% of ask; the resale floor
$1.51M
Acreage, College Grove
46 closings on 5 to 32+ acres; 93 active listings in the zip to $16M

Sources: MLS closed sales, trailing 12 months to August 20, 2026, as compiled by nashvillehome.guru for the 37014 zip (138 sales, 43 active, 41 under contract, 176 expired or cancelled listings) and the 37046 zip (263 sales, 93 active, 23 under contract), their new-construction cuts (52 and 154), the College Grove acreage cut (46), and the subdivision pages for Kings' Chapel, Hardeman Springs, High Park Hill, Pine Creek, Fiddler's Glen, Fox Farms, Black Hawk, the Grove, Troubadour, Reeds Vale, Falls Grove, St James, and the McDaniel streets. The zip pages date their medians to the same window; the subdivision pages were refreshed on different days, so their counts differ by one or two.

04 · The county, and its rules

What $1.30 buys with no town, and what the five acres mean.

There is no town hall to walk into. Everything a city would do here is done by the county, a utility district, a volunteer department, an HOA, or you. The rules that shape the place are the county's rural zoning and the plans it has drawn for the three villages. As of September 2026:

QuestionThe answerWhat it means for you
The five acresRural Preservation, since 2013The county's 2012 zoning ordinance, effective January 1, 2013, put the rural east in a Rural Preservation district: five acres a house in a conventional subdivision. The same ordinance allows a conservation subdivision, one-acre lots at the same overall density on a site of 15 acres or more with the rest kept open, which is how Reeds Vale, Falls Grove, High Park Hill, and Hardeman Springs exist on farms. Lots of five acres and up skip subdivision review altogether.You cannot split a five-acre lot. The next subdivision arrives as a whole farm at once, with a hearing.
The villagesSpecial area plansThe county's Comprehensive Land Use Plan, adopted March 12, 2020, names six villages and gives each a plan. Arrington's was adopted March 20, 2025, with a draft Arrington Village zoning district for the crossroads. College Grove's dates from the 2007 plan and lives in section 10.02(O) of the zoning ordinance. Triune has its own, with four character areas, TCA-1 to TCA-4, and a rezoning of 31 acres at 5157 Murfreesboro Road from the first to the fourth is before the planning commission on September 10, 2026, at 5:30. The Growth Plan recorded January 3, 2025 sets the cities' growth boundaries around all of it.The crossroads can densify; the roads between them are meant not to. Read the plan for the village nearest you before you buy the view.
SewerNone, and none comingNo municipal sewer serves either community. Every newer subdivision runs a community wastewater collection system, bonded through the planning commission: Kings' Chapel, Hardeman Springs, the Grove, Reeds Vale, Pine Creek, Fox Farms, and Arrington Ridge, most of them STEP, a septic tank effluent pump at each house feeding a shared drip field, with the operator on the HOA bill. Everything else is individual septic, permitted by the county's Sewage Disposal office after a soil evaluation mapped at one inch to a hundred feet.The inspector's first question. A lot that fails the soil test is a pasture.
Water and powerMilcrofton, MTEMilcrofton Utility District serves Arrington, College Grove, Triune, Eagleville, Almaville, and Nolensville, 94 square miles and 13,400 connections, buying from Harpeth Valley. It took over the old Nolensville/College Grove district's territory here in 2008; HB&TS serves the Bethesda side. Some older farms are still on wells. Middle Tennessee Electric has the power and a solar field in College Grove; United Communications is building fiber, with a West College Grove run of about 200 houses, and coverage that varies by road.Ask which water and which internet reach the address. Both change at a property line.
Fire, and the sheriffVolunteer and countyArrington Volunteer Fire's Station 19 on Murfreesboro Road, rated ISO 5 since 2014; Williamson Fire-Rescue's Station 15 on Giles Hill Road and Station 18 on Depot Street in College Grove, Station 17 at Bethesda, and Station 28 on Harpeth Peytonsville Road. The Williamson County Sheriff's Office patrols everything unincorporated from its Franklin headquarters and two substations.No city police, and a fire rating that moves the insurance quote. Ask both by address.
GarbageNot a county serviceNo pickup. Contract a hauler, or take it to the convenience center at 6520 Arno-College Grove Road, free with proof of residency, three cubic yards a day. The center on Almaville Road with an Arrington address is Rutherford County's.Most HOAs name a hauler; the farms own a truck.
The roadSR 96, 2020 to wheneverTDOT has been widening Route 96 from Arno Road to Wilson Pike, 5.8 miles from two lanes to five, since November 2020 at $49.7 million. The three phases east of it, Wilson Pike to I-840, I-840 to Coleman Hill, and on to Veterans Parkway, are under development with no dates. I-840 crosses Route 96 on a hill with no interchange; the ramps are at Arno Road, exit 37, and Horton Highway at Triune, exit 42.Arrington's front door is a construction zone from the Franklin side and a two-lane from the interstate side.
Greenbelt15 acres, three years backAgricultural classification on 15 acres or more that earned an average $1,500 a year over three years, applied for by March 15, taxes the land on its farm value. Taking it out of farming, or selling to a buyer who does, triggers rollback: the three prior years' savings, five for open space.A greenbelt farm's tax bill is not yours until the assessor reviews it. Price the rollback into the offer.

In one line

The county zones, the sheriff patrols, the district sells water, the volunteers answer the fire call, and the HOA runs the sewer. Five acres or a club gate is the whole place in one sentence.

05 · Schools

Page for almost everyone, two elementaries by road, and one subdivision that goes to Summit.

The middle and high school are the same for nearly every address: Page Middle and Page High on Arno Road in Franklin, the state's eleventh-ranked public high school. The elementary is the question, and it is a new one: Arrington Elementary opened on Cox Road in August 2023 to take the Route 96 side from College Grove Elementary, which keeps the Grove, Troubadour, Falls Grove, and the village. St James on Cox Road is zoned west to Bethesda and Summit, and the Rutherford County edge of the 37014 zip goes to Stewarts Creek.

SchoolGradesNeighborhoodsNotes
Arrington ElementaryCox Road · WCSPK–5Kings' Chapel (nearly every closing), Hardeman Springs (32 of 35), Reeds Vale, Fox Farms, Pine Creek, Arrington Ridge, High Park HillOpened August 2023, 121,000 sq ft, built for 890, about 715 students; the newest elementary in the district, opened to relieve College Grove and Creekside.
College Grove ElementaryHorton Highway · WCSK–5The Grove, Troubadour, Falls Grove, Grove Park, the village, the acreage roads south and westAbout 385 students at 14 to 1, the smallest ratio in this series; a village school that lost the subdivisions to Arrington in 2023 and kept the farms.
Page MiddleArno Road, Franklin · WCS6–8Every Arrington and College Grove Elementary addressAbout 1,390 students; 7th of 583 Tennessee middle schools on SchoolDigger.
Page HighArno Road, Franklin · WCS9–12Every Arrington and College Grove Elementary addressAbout 1,480 students; U.S. News' 11th-ranked Tennessee high school, 72 percent AP participation. Eighty open-zoned seats for 2026–27, with Page Middle eighth-graders zoned to Centennial first in line.
Bethesda Elementary, Thompson's Station Middle, Summit HighThe Bethesda side · WCSK–12St James on Cox Road, and the Bethesda and Peytonsville roadsThe west edge of College Grove zones west. A five-acre lot on the Cox Road line can go either way; check the address.
Not Williamson's schoolsWith an Arrington addressK–12East of Almaville Road and along State Route 102Rutherford County: Stewarts Creek Elementary, Middle, and High. About 16 of 401 Arrington-address records.

Sources: WCS zoning as recorded on 2025–26 MLS closings by subdivision (Kings' Chapel, Hardeman Springs, Reeds Vale, Falls Grove, the Grove, Troubadour, St James); WCS on Arrington Elementary's opening and capacity; NCES 2024–25 enrollment; U.S. News, SchoolDigger, and Public School Review ratings; Williamson Source on the 2026–27 open-zoned seats. No new school is planned for the area beyond Arrington Elementary in the district's published capital plan. Confirm any address with the WCS zone finder; the district redraws lines when it opens a school, and it opened one here three years ago.

06 · Getting around

The drive, honestly timed.

Times are from Route 96 at Cox Road in Arrington on a weekday morning between 7 and 8:30. College Grove adds four to six minutes to everything north and west, and subtracts them from I-65 and Berry Farms; Kings' Chapel is three minutes farther out than the crossroads. The number that reorders this table against every other guide in the series is I-840: Murfreesboro is 24 minutes from Kings' Chapel and the airport 41, with no traffic light between the ramp and either.

Downtown FranklinRoute 96 west through the widening; 21 min free-flow, 12.8 miles; 25 from College Grove by Arno Road25–40min
Cool SpringsWilson Pike or Clovercroft to Moores Lane; 22 min free-flow, 13.4 miles; 26 from College Grove28–40min
I-840 on-rampArno Road, exit 37, or Horton Highway at Triune, exit 42; 8 to 12 minutes, none of it on the interstate's own hill8–15min
I-65 at Peytonsville RoadI-840 west to exit 31, or Route 96 and the Goose Creek Bypass; 23 min free-flow, 12.9 miles; 19 from College Grove25–35min
Downtown NashvilleNolensville Road to I-24, or I-840 to I-65; 39 min free-flow, 28.6 miles; 43 from College Grove45–65min
Nashville International (BNA)I-840 east to I-24; 41 min free-flow, 23.2 miles; 47 from College Grove. Murfreesboro's square is 28, and 24 from Kings' Chapel40–55min

Mobility scores

Walkable1/10

Inside a gate to the pool or the clubhouse, and in College Grove village from the bank to the library. Nothing else is within a walk of anything, and the roads have no shoulder.

Bikeable3/10

The subdivision trails, Kings' Chapel's along its creeks, and the five miles at Peacock Hill. The county roads are the ride serious cyclists come out here for; Arno Road and Cox Road have no shoulder, and the pickups do not slow down.

Transit0/10

None. The nearest bus stop is on Nolensville Pike in Davidson County.

Traffic painModerate

Route 96 through the widening zone from Arrington to Franklin at 7:15, the school queue on Cox Road at 7:40, and the vineyard's Saturday afternoons on Patton Road. The interstate side is clear; the Franklin side is the problem, and TDOT has no date for the phases east of Wilson Pike.

07 · Daily life

Where the week actually happens.

  • Arrington Vineyards6211 Patton Road: the tasting rooms, the Wine Club House opened April 2025, the pavilion, and the lawn. Bring the food; the wine, the band, and the view are the point.Drive · 3–12 min
  • The club dining roomsKings' Chapel's restaurant with its chef, the Grove's Manor House, Troubadour's clubhouse: members only, and the only sit-down dinner east of Nolensville. The $75 minimum at Kings' Chapel is easy to meet.Inside the gate
  • The marketsCountry Market & Deli at 8402 Horton Highway, the Triune Market with the gas at the interstate, and Bethesda Market & Deli, open from 4:30 in the morning: the biscuit, the plate lunch, and the bulletin board.Drive · 5–15 min
  • Nolensville's roomsMartin's original, the Feed Mill, Mill Creek Brewing, and the Village Green row, 14 minutes north by Route 96 and Nolensville Road.Drive · 15–25 min
  • Berry Farms and Main StreetThe town center at I-65, 20 minutes from College Grove, and downtown Franklin's rooms 21 minutes from Arrington by Route 96; we track the shows nightly.Tonight's shows
  • Murfreesboro's squareThe other direction on I-840: 24 minutes from Kings' Chapel, and for the east side of Arrington the nearer night out.Drive · 25–35 min

08 · The year

What the county's east does together.

All Franklin events →

With no town, the calendar happens on the vineyard's hill, at the castle, and on the village street. The recurring days, and the two county ones that pull everyone to Franklin:

09 · Trade-offs

The case for, and the case against.

What you gain

  • The rate. $1.30, the county alone, about $4,875 a year on the median house: $1,275 less than Nolensville, $995 less than Franklin, $715 less than Brentwood, and no special district anywhere.
  • Page, and a 2023 elementary. The state's eleventh-ranked high school and seventh-ranked middle school, with a new elementary on Cox Road built for 890, at the farm rate.
  • The clubs. Three of them, with Greg Norman's course and Tom Fazio's, a heated saltwater pool with a restaurant beside it, an indoor arena, and a spa, none of which a Franklin subdivision offers at any price.
  • The land. Five acres and a barn as the zoning, not the exception: 43 College Grove sales on five acres or more last year, a large-animal vet on Arno Road, and a saddle club since 1962.
  • I-840. Murfreesboro in 24 minutes, I-65 in 23, the airport in 41, none of it through a town, and the only part of the county where the interstate is the fast way to everything but Franklin.

What you give up

  • The town. No grocery, no ER, no restaurant a nonmember can book, no sidewalk outside a gate, no bus, a library closed on weekends, and a sheriff's deputy from Franklin when you call.
  • The membership. $7,500 at Kings' Chapel, $50,000 to $100,000 and $312 to $907 a month at the Grove, about $200,000 at Troubadour, with the deed and not by choice, plus an exit fee when you sell.
  • The septic tank. No sewer, ever: a shared drip field on the HOA bill in the new subdivisions, a soil test that decides whether a lot is a lot on the farms, and a pump truck either way.
  • The road, and the ramp that is not there. Route 96 to Franklin has been under construction since 2020 with no date for the Arrington phases, and I-840 crosses it without an interchange, so the interstate is 8 to 12 minutes away by two-lane.
  • Selling a resale. The builders close in 9 to 15 days at full ask; a pre-2022 College Grove house takes 29, a Grove house 58, and Arrington logged 176 expired or cancelled listings against 138 sales.

The verdict

Buy the club or the acreage, then the house. Kings' Chapel if the reason is a pool, a restaurant, and Page for $1.85 million with a $7,500 membership you can live with. The Grove if the reason is the course and the budget has room for the initiation and the dues for as long as you own it. Reeds Vale or High Park Hill if it is a new house on the county's $1.30 without a club at all. Falls Grove if it is the only established resale street east of Nolensville. And five acres on Cox or Arno Road if the reason is the barn, in which case hire the soil scientist before the inspector. Whatever the reason, read the HOA's wastewater agreement, ask the insurer what the fire station's rating does to the quote, and price the club's exit fee into the day you sell, because that day comes for everyone.

10 · Map

Where it sits.

The southeast quarter of Williamson County, between Nolensville's line at Sunset Road and the Marshall County line south of College Grove, with Rutherford County at Almaville Road to the east and Franklin's Page campus on Arno Road to the west. Route 96 runs east from Franklin through Arrington to Triune; Horton Highway, US 31A, runs south from Triune through College Grove; I-840 crosses both. Kings' Chapel is on 96 at the vineyard; the Grove and Troubadour are off Arno Road south of it.

Arrington at Route 96 and Cox Road; Triune at 96 and Horton Highway; College Grove village at Horton and Arno Road Arrington Elementary on Cox Road; College Grove Elementary on Horton Highway; Page Middle and High on Arno Road toward Franklin The Grove off Wildings Boulevard and Troubadour toward Route 96; the vineyard on Patton Road; I-840's ramps at Arno Road and Triune

11 · Questions

What people ask before they move here.

Is there a town of Arrington or College Grove?

No. Both are unincorporated communities in Williamson County with no town government, no city tax, no city police, and no municipal water or sewer. The county commission zones the land under its 2013 Rural Preservation rules, the sheriff patrols it from Franklin, Arrington's volunteer department and the county's Williamson Fire-Rescue stations answer the fire call, Milcrofton Utility District sells the water, and each house is on a septic tank or a community wastewater system run through the HOA. The county's 2020 land-use plan recognizes six villages, including Arrington, College Grove, and Triune, and has adopted a special area plan for each, Arrington's in March 2025. What that means in practice: the crossroads can grow into something like a village center, and the roads between them are meant to stay five-acre country.

What is the property tax?

$1.30 per $100 of assessed value for tax year 2026, Williamson County's unincorporated rate, with nothing added. Assessment is 25 percent of appraisal, so the $1.5 million median house pays about $4,875 a year. The same house would pay about $6,150 in Nolensville at $1.64, $5,870 inside Franklin outside the special school district at $1.566, and $5,590 in Brentwood at $1.49. The Rutherford County sliver of the 37014 zip pays that county's $1.4885, about $5,580. A farm of 15 acres or more that earns $1,500 a year can be taxed on its agricultural value under greenbelt, and selling it out of farming triggers three years of rollback, which is the buyer's bill unless the contract says otherwise.

Which schools?

Page Middle and Page High on Arno Road for nearly every address, ranked seventh and eleventh in the state. The elementary splits by road: Arrington Elementary, opened on Cox Road in August 2023 with room for 890, takes Kings' Chapel, Hardeman Springs, Reeds Vale, Fox Farms, Pine Creek, High Park Hill, and Arrington Ridge; College Grove Elementary, about 385 students at 14 to 1, takes the Grove, Troubadour, Falls Grove, Grove Park, the village, and the farms south and west. St James on Cox Road is the exception, zoned to Bethesda Elementary, Thompson's Station Middle, and Summit High, and the Rutherford County edge east of Almaville Road goes to Stewarts Creek. The district opened a school here three years ago and redraws lines when it does; confirm the address with the WCS zone finder.

What do the club memberships cost, and can I skip them?

At the Grove and Kings' Chapel, no: the membership comes with the deed. The Grove's sports membership is a $50,000 initiation, $312 a month, and a $10,000 fee when you leave; the golf membership is $100,000, $907 a month, and $20,000 to exit, on top of association dues of about $249 to $276 a month, and the community is in its final phase with about 500 homes. Kings' Chapel's club is $7,500 at closing, often paid by the builder on a new house, plus a $75 monthly restaurant minimum and $1,200 a year in dues, for the 130,000-gallon heated saltwater pool, the clubhouse, the restaurant, tennis, and the trails. Troubadour's membership is about $200,000 to join and about $40,000 a year, and sales carry a community enhancement fee of about 1 percent. Hardeman Springs, Reeds Vale, High Park Hill, Falls Grove, and the acreage have no club: $115 to $150 a month, or nothing.

Septic, STEP, or sewer?

Never sewer. No municipal system serves either community and none is planned, which is the reason the county zoned it at five acres. The newer subdivisions run community wastewater systems bonded through the planning commission: Kings' Chapel, Hardeman Springs, the Grove, Reeds Vale, Pine Creek, Fox Farms, and Arrington Ridge, most of them STEP, a septic tank effluent pump at each house feeding a shared drip field, with the operator's fee inside the HOA dues. Older houses and every farm are on individual septic, permitted by the county's Sewage Disposal office after a soil evaluation; a lot that fails the evaluation cannot be built on. Water is Milcrofton Utility District for most addresses, and some older farms are still on wells, which need a test at purchase.

Is any of Kings' Chapel in Rutherford County?

No. Every Kings' Chapel sale on the MLS records Williamson County, and the development sits west of the county line at Almaville Road. The 37014 zip does cross that line: about 16 of 401 Arrington-address records, 4 percent, are in Rutherford County along Almaville Road and State Route 102, with Stewarts Creek schools and a $1.4885 rate. Check the county on the tax record, not the mailing address, and the same goes for the Cox Road line between Page and Summit.

How does it compare to Brentwood's and Franklin's gated communities?

Same product, different bill. Governors Club in Brentwood and Laurelbrooke in Franklin sell the gate and the golf at a $2.2 million and higher median inside the cities' school clusters and, at Governors Club, Brentwood's $1.49. Kings' Chapel sells the gate at $1.85 million on the county's $1.30 with Page instead of Ravenwood, and its club is $7,500 rather than a country-club initiation; the Grove sells a better course than either at $3.06 million with a $50,000 to $100,000 membership on top. What Arrington and College Grove cannot sell is the ten minutes to a Costco. The Brentwood estate guide and the gated Franklin guide cover the other side of the choice.

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