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Spring Hill, Tennessee. Spring Hill is a city in Maury and Williamson counties, Tennessee, located approximately 30 miles (48 km) south of Nashville. Spring Hill's population as of 2014 was 34,269.
Cummins Falls State Park. This idyllic 211-acre site in Jackson County is located nine miles north of Cookeville on the Blackburn Fork State Scenic River. In the rolling hills of Jackson County where Putnam and Jackson counties meet, the stream gives way to a 75 foot drop. Cummins Falls is formed on the Eastern Highland Rim and is Tennessee's eighth largest waterfall in volume.