Jones County Texas Archives - Spring Creek Community - 1927 *********************************************************** Submitted by: Dorman Holub Date: 19 January 2020 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/jones/jonestoc.htm *********************************************************** The Stamford AmericanThursday, June 30, 1927Spring Creek community has plenty of good farms and fine people, but is without house or churchby. Edna MooreSome 25 years ago, Spring Creek had a fine little school house, church and a largetabernacle, which stood near the cemetery. there was a protracted meeting held at thechurch every year and people from far and near attended it.Some time ago the church house was torn down and moved away. Then the school housewas moved. It was moved on the corner of Mr. Jake MuehlsteinÕs place. The schoolprogressed nicely from the noon. All the pupils enjoyed going to school at SpringCreek for there was always a good teacher. It was just a one teacher school, but wascarried on as nicely as any school could be carried on. The teacher and the patronsalways cooperated and in that way the school was carried on nicely.In 1924 the little school house was moved again. It was consolidated and was dividedbetween New Hope and Avoca. The community is just about equally divided between theabove mentioned places. Part of this community is in the New Hope district and partin the Avoca district. The school house was auctioned off, and was bought by Dr.Southward. He built it to the house on his place which was nearby. The land where theschool house stood was bought by Mr. Jake Muehlstein.One of the advantages of this community is that there has ____ been put and is beingput into cultivation than ever before.There is one citizen in this community who has been here for 30 years, and he saysthat the community has become very thickly settled since he came here. He has beenhere and seen all the places progress and grow. He saw Stamford grow up. When he cameto this community horse and buggy were in fashion.Spring Creek has about the oldest cemetery in Jones county. It is a large cemeteryand is well-kept. Some of the world war veterans were buried at Spring Creek.