Details for Spring Garden Community
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5439005016
Data
| Marker Number | 5016 |
| Atlas Number | 5439005016 |
| Marker Title | Spring Garden Community |
| Index Entry | Spring Garden Community |
| Address | Cheek Sparger Rd. in Spring Garden Cemetery |
| City | Bedford |
| County | Tarrant |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 675156 |
| UTM Northing | 3638080 |
| Subject Codes | ghost towns |
| Marker Year | 1981 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Spring Garden Cemetery, Cheek Sparger Rd., 1 mi East of Jackson Drive, Bedford |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | 18" x 28" |
| Marker Text | The first permanet 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 fire and the nearby development of Bedford. Only the pioneer burial ground at this site marks the location of the early settlement. |