​Site of
New Bern Church School
​and Cemetery

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Marker Text: ​Swiss and German immigrants who settled here in the early 1890s named their settlement for Bern, Switzerland. In 1892 the newly organized St. John Lutheran Church built a sanctuary which also housed the New Bern School here on 2.3 acres donated by Daniel Murphy. The New Bern Cemetery (0.1 mi. E of this site) was established in 1895 on 3 acres acquired from Friedrich and Anna Stauffer. Through a new church building (1912) and schoolhouse (1920) were moved to the nearby community of Wuthrich Hill in 1949 the cemetery continues to serve the community. (1993) 

Marker No: 9310

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.492790, -97.203133

Location: ​CR 414 east of CR 421, approx. 5 miles northeast of Taylor off FM 619