Springtown Square became the center of community life through a series of developments beginning in 1906, when an 1884 College Hill Institute building was moved there to house city hall on the first floor and the Odd Fellows lodge on the second, with an open-sided wooden tabernacle built on the east end of the building. In June 1934, a monument honoring the founders of the Male and Female Institute and College Hill Institute was erected, and the square was given the name Monument Park. Soon after, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a new tabernacle and a stone and wood fence designed to keep horses, wagons, and buggies at a distance, using sandstone from the Brazos River bottoms chiseled into blocks weighing from one to fifty pounds and set with mortar of lime, cement, and sand, while the tabernacle's stylized wood beams were shaped from milled lumber and roughened with an adz. The square and grounds have long served as a gathering place for Springtown and surrounding residents, hosting community celebrations and later receiving monuments devoted to those who lost their lives in wars as early as World War II, while the tabernacle has remained a treasured center of the town through the years.