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History · Spring Garden

Spring Garden’s post office opened in 1844

Below: maps from 1967 on and the census since 1880.

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How Spring Garden began

When was Spring Garden founded?

1844

The Spring Garden post office opened in 1844, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Liberty (1842), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 148 in 18802020 census: 216182 years
Founding year: the first Spring Garden post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Spring Garden’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Spring Garden are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1844: 182 years of Spring Garden.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Spring Garden’s history is told.

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Timeline

Spring Garden, 1842 to 1967

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1842Post officeThe Liberty post office opens
  3. 1843Post officeThe Liberty post office closes
  4. 1844Post officeThe Spring Garden post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1967On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story

How Spring Garden came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Spring Garden.

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A post office has been in operation under the name Spring Garden since 1844. The community was named for an early settler who was noted for his lush annual spring garden.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Spring Garden on the map, 1967 to 2001

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Spring Garden. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Spring Garden on the 1967 USGS mapSpring Garden on the 1975 USGS mapSpring Garden on the 1980 USGS mapSpring Garden on the 2001 USGS map1967Piedmont sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Spring Garden.

People over time

Spring Garden, census by census

010020018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 238

Between 148 and 238 people in every census since 1880.

3 censuses, 1880–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Spring Garden’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Spring Garden’s post office has been open since 1844. Another post office, Liberty, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Liberty
1842–1843
Spring Garden
1844–today
18401930today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Spring Garden’s history

What year was Spring Garden founded?

The Spring Garden post office opened in 1844, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.