Spring Garden Community

Samuel Cecil Holiday Witten of Spring Garden, Missouri, became the first permanent settler in this area when he arrived in 1854. In 1865, he and Milton Moore built a schoolhouse here and named it for his Missouri home. The building also served as a chapel and meeting hall. Spring Garden was once the site of churches, a grange, and a Justice of the Peace court, but it 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.

Bedford, Texas · United States