Cave Spring School and Cave Spring Cemetery is a historic

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls ...

building and

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located at

Sarcoxie Sarcoxie is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,406 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Sarcoxie was platted in the early 1830s, and it was originally ...

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 ...

. 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 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 United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

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