The campus rests on a 450 acre (1.8 km²) site, is naturally landscaped and features huge oaks, azalea-lined walkways and an
18-hole golf course. There are 32 buildings, several of which are listed in
the National Register of
Historic Places.In 1941, the Spring Hill football team began play for the first time. Because they were also disbanded that same year, it is
commonly said on campus that the Spring Hill College Football Team has been undefeated since 1941.The night of January 21, 1957, a dozen or more darkened cars eased down the main avenue of the college. Several members of the
KKK attempted to set up a kerosene-soaked cross outside Mobile Hall, a
dormitory. The Klan made a tactical blunder, however, in visiting the campus during finals week. Most of the white, male
residents were still awake, studying for exams, and several heard the hammering. Once alerted, students streamed from both ends
of the building carrying whatever items were handy -- golf clubs, tennis rackets, bricks -- and put the panicked Klansmen to
flight. To save face, the KKK returned the next night and succeeded in burning a cross at the gate of the College before students
reacted. The following day, however, a group of students -- male and female -- hanged a Klansman in effigy at the College gate,
with a sign reading, "KKKers ARE CHICKEN."In 1962, Lee Harvey Oswald gave a speech at Spring Hill, just
months before assassinating President John F. Kennedy.In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mentions
Spring Hill in his "Letter from Birmingham
Jail," citing the College as one of the first Southern schools to integrate.In 1969, Musician Jimmy Buffet married his first wife, Margie Washichek,
in St. Joseph's Chapel.