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Hedspeth Log Home

Residential
1850s
c. 1850
west of Route JJ, twelve miles north of Poplar Bluff
Verbatim Passage from Source
"One important survival of the early settlement period in Butler County is the Hedspeth Log Home. In about 1850, Henry Hedspeth built a log home near the mill at Keener Spring. Twenty-four years later, the home was dismantled and moved to a new location, where it still stands"

— Source: Butler County, Missouri Historical and Architectural Survey (referenced c. 1850)

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What We Know From This Source

A log home built by Henry Hedspeth around 1850 that was later relocated and included in the survey.

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