Negro Gull, was a little southeast of Center Hill. It 
got its name from a family of freed slaves 
from Virginia named Sandridge who bought 1200 acres of 
land from William Bates in the early 1930s and 
settled on it near a spring. A member of the family, 
William Hulda (who later called himself William 
Houchin), became one of the richest businessmen and 
greatest benefactors of McMinnville and Warren 
County in the late 1800s.  The spring came to be known 
as Houchin Spring.