Jerseyville in Jersey County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
The McAdams, Plummer & Hagen Cabins
Leonard and Clay McAdams built the log cabin on your right in the 1920s in the timbered-covered hills in southwestern Jersey County. The cabin was home to a family of six and looked much as it does today, with one room downstairs and a small loft above. Christina (McAdams) Lyming, who lived in the cabin until age 13, donated it to the Jersey County Historical Society in 2003. Workers disassembled the cabin and numbered each log. The cabin was reassembled at its present location and opened for tours in 2007.
Joshua and Melvina Plummer owned the cabin in the center. It was located in Rosedale Township, near the northern border of Pere Marquette Park. Joshua planted an apple orchard and farmed the hilly land with mules. Melvina tended White Leghorn chickens, canned fruit and vegetables, and raised eight children. By 1938, the Plummer family lived in a farmhouse and used the cabin as a smoke house and as a place to make apple cider.
Felix Hagen Sr. built the log cabin on your left in the late 1880s near Deer Plain in neighboring Calhoun County. It originally had two stories and porches upstairs and down. Before Felix built the cabin's interior staircase, he climbed a ladder each night to sleep in a second-floor bedroom. He and his wife, Luvena, raised 11 children in the cabin. After the Hagen family moved to a larger home, the cabin was used to house migrant workers who picked apples at Hagen's Orchard.
Louis Stumpe, Jr. bought the Plummer and Hagen cabins in the 1970s and relocated them to the family farm near McClusky. In 2014, Eveyln Stumpe and her family donated the cabins to the Historical Society. The Plummer cabin was moved to our grounds that summer and opened for tours that fall. Before relocating the Hagen cabin to our grounds in 2016, the second story and porches were removed. The Hagen cabin was finished and opened for tours in 2017.
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Recreating Hickory Grove
The completion of the Hagen cabin marked the end of more than a decade of work to reproduce Hickory Grove, the tiny settlement that existed here before being renamed Jerseyville in 1834. That settlement included three log cabins and the Red House.
Erected 2017 by Jersey County Historical Society.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Settlements & Settlers.
Location. 39° 7.448′ N, 90° 19.765′ W. Marker is in Jerseyville, Illinois, in Jersey County. Marker can be reached from North State Street (U.S. 67) 0.1 miles south of Snedeker Street, on the left when traveling south. Marker is located on the grounds of Jersey County Historical Society. It can be accessed from the driveway (to the left of the Cheney Mansion) off State Street (US 67), which leads to a parking lot in front of the cabins. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 601 North State Street, Jerseyville IL 62052, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. The Union Forest Church (within shouting distance of this marker); The Lone Star School (within shouting distance of this marker); The Red House / Cheney Mansion (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Hathaway Cemetery Memorial (about 700 feet away); Hamilton Primary School (approx. 6.2 miles away); World War I Memorial (approx. 11.7 miles away); Charles Brainerd House (approx. 11.9 miles away); The Ice House (approx. 12 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Jerseyville.
Credits. This page was last revised on November 27, 2021. It was originally submitted on November 20, 2019, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois. This page has been viewed 286 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on November 20, 2019, by Jason Voigt of Glen Carbon, Illinois. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.