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The Gray/Campbell Farmstead is the oldest house in
Springfield, Mo. It is Located in the Nathanael Greene Park on South Scenic. Along with the oldest house
in Springfield, circa 1856, there is a log kitchen, a two crib barn, and a log granary. The House was built by James
Price Gray and was later sold to his brother-in law, John Polk Campbell, nephew and name-sake of the founder of the city of
Springfield. The house was occupied by the Campbell family from 1865 to the 1950's and was moved to the Nathanael Greene
Park in 1984 when the Kansas and James River Expressways were constructed.
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