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 | | The first settlers in Phelps County came in the early 1800's, as farmers and iron workers along the local rivers, such as the Meramec, Gasconade, and the Little Piney. |
 | | One, widely regarded as a folk legend, and acknowledged as such by the Phelps County Historical Society, comes from the battle to become county seat with neighboring Dillon, Missouri. |
 | | Webber preferred the name Hardscrabble, for the unfarmable clay dirt in the region, and Bishop pushed for the name Phelps Center; however, the name for the town came from new settlers originally from North Carolina, who missed their hometown of Raleigh, but chose to spell it phonetically. |
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