Southeast Missouri author and historian Edison Shrum made a shocking discovery in 1986. Alerted that a log cabin had been found inside the F.J. Armstrong farm house on Silver Springs Road, Shrum determined that it was the log cabin of area patriarch Andrew Ramsey. He estimated that it was built between 1795 and 1810.
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