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| | A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Missouri |
 | | Later known as Peck Spring for the brothers: George, Seth, Frank, and Albert Peck, of Geneva, Illinois, who early in 1900 bought from the Missouri Land and Lumber Co., 23,000 acres of land (now a part of the Fristoe unit) for a ranch which was never developed to any extent. |
 | | Mills says that his father-in-law, a Jackie Freeman, who had come to this community from North Carolina in 1870, put in a saw mill here soon after the railroad was built to this place in 1887 and operated it for several years. |
 | | Mills, was formed by compounding the first syllable of Freeman's name with -mont for the topography. |
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