​Spring Garden Community

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Marker Text: ​The first permanent settler to this area was Samuel Cecil Holiday Witten of Spring Garden, Missouri, who came here in 1854. In 1865, with Milton Moore, he built a schoolhouse here which was named for his Missouri home. The building also served as a chapel and meeting Hall. Once the site of churches, a grange, and a justice of the peace court, Spring Garden declined in the 1870s because of a destructive schoolhouse fire and the nearby development of Bedford. Only the pioneer burial ground at this site marks the location of the early settlement. (1981) 

Marker No: 5016

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 32.866550, -97.127800

Location: Spring Garden Cemetery, Cheek Sparger Road, 1 mile East of Jackson Drive, Bedford