<P> On the southeastern side of the city in 1812, about 500 Kickapoo Native Americans built a small village of about 100 wigwams . They abandoned the site in 1828 . Ten miles south of the site of Springfield, the Lenape had built a substantial dwelling of houses that borrowed elements of Anglo colonial style from the mid-Atlantic, where their people had migrated from . </P> <P> The first European - American settlers to the area were John Polk Campbell and his brother, who moved to the area in 1829 from Tennessee . Campbell chose the area because of the presence of a natural well that flowed into a small stream . He staked his claim by carving his initials in a tree . Cambell was joined by settlers Thomas Finney, Samuel Weaver, and Joseph Miller . They proceeded to clear the land of trees to develop it for farms . A small general store was soon opened . </P> <P> In 1833, the southern part of the state was named Greene County after Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene . The legislature deeded 50 acres of land to John Campbell for the creation of a county seat in 1835 . Campbell laid out city streets and lots . The town was incorporated in 1838 . In 1878, the town got its nickname the "Queen City of the Ozarks ." </P> <P> The United States government enforced Indian Removal during the 1830s, forcing land cessions in the Southeast and other areas, and relocating tribes to Indian Territory, which later developed as Oklahoma . During the 1838 relocation of Cherokee natives, what they call their Trail of Tears passed through Springfield to the west, along the Old Wire Road . </P>

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