After Sylvester Paddy came to the Ozarks. the man this area was named for. he began a logging operation in the Paddy Creek area in 1816. They cut the tall virgin Missouri pine. rafted it down Paddy Creek to the Gasconade River and down to the Missouri River. where the gateway to the West was just being formed. and the German immigrants needed housing. So the Paddy Creek area was logged in the 1830s and 1840s and 1850s. And the lumber was shipped to build St. Louis. Mo. After that came the era of the Civil War when the settlers were removed by the Union troops. and then they came back and made claims on their homesteads in the Paddy Creek area.
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