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The McAdams, Plummer & Hagen Cabins
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In southwestern Jersey County, Leonard and Clay McAdams built a log cabin in the 1920s in timber-covered hills, where a family of six lived in one downstairs room with a small loft above; Christina McAdams Lyming, who lived there until age 13, later donated it in 2003, and after workers disassembled and numbered each log, it was reassembled at its present location and opened for tours in 2007. Joshua and Melvina Plummer owned the center cabin in Rosedale Township near the northern border of Pere Marquette Park, where Joshua planted an apple orchard and farmed hilly land with mules while Melvina tended White Leghorn chickens, canned fruit and vegetables, and raised eight children; by 1938 the family had moved to a farmhouse and used the cabin as a smoke house and for making apple cider. Near Deer Plain in neighboring Calhoun County, Felix Hagen Sr. built the left-hand log cabin in the late 1880s with two stories and porches upstairs and down; before adding an interior staircase, he climbed a ladder each night to reach a second-floor bedroom, and he and his wife Luvena raised 11 children there. After the Hagen family moved to a larger home, migrant workers who picked apples at Hagen's Orchard lived in the cabin. Louis Stumpe, Jr. bought the Plummer and Hagen cabins in the 1970s and moved them to the family farm near McClusky, and in 2014 Evelyn Stumpe and her family donated the cabins; the Plummer cabin was moved that summer and opened for tours that fall, while the Hagen cabin, after its second story and porches were removed, was relocated in 2016 and finished and opened in 2017. The completion of the Hagen cabin ended more than a decade of work to reproduce Hickory Grove, the tiny settlement that stood here before it was renamed Jerseyville in 1834, a settlement that included three log cabins and the Red House.
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