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Cave Spring School and Cave Spring Cemetery is a historic
school A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the Educational architecture, building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most co ...
building and
cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...
located at Sarcoxie,
Jasper County, Missouri Jasper County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,761. Its county seat is Carthage, and its largest city is Joplin. The county was organized in 1841 and named for W ...
. The Cave Spring School was built about 1840, and reconstructed in 1875. It is a one-story brick building with a steeply pitched front gable and a wood shingle roof. It features a full-width hipped roof porch, added in about 1937. Associated with the school are two stone privies. The cemetery contains more than 420 marked graves dating from 1840 to the present. The school and cemetery are the last remnants of the Cave Spring community. The school building served as the temporary
Jasper County Courthouse Jasper County Courthouse may refer to: * Jasper County Courthouse (Georgia), a courthouse in Monticello, Georgia * Jasper County Courthouse (Illinois), a courthouse in Newton, Illinois * Jasper County Courthouse (Indiana), a courthouse in Rensse ...
from October 1865 to September 1866. (includes 13 photographs from 2011) It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 2012.


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* * * {{National Register of Historic Places in Missouri School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri School buildings completed in 1840 Buildings and structures in Jasper County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Jasper County, Missouri