Zanoni, Missouri

Zanoni is an unincorporated community located in Ozark County, Missouri, United States on Route 181, approximately ten miles northeast of Gainesville. A watermill (doubling as a bed and breakfast) and a post office are all that remain of the community. The community was founded in 1898 and was named for the novel Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.[2] The mill was built in 1905 as an overshot wheel mill by "Doc" Morrison and restored by his grandson.[3]

Old store building and gas pump at Zanoni
Zanoni, Missouri
Community
Mill building and waterwheel at Zanoni
Zanoni, Missouri
Location of Zanoni, Missouri
Coordinates: 36°41′10″N 92°19′55″W[1]
CountryU. S. A.
StateMissouri
CountyOzark County
Elevation220 m (720 ft)
Time zoneUTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)

The mill is located where the Zanoni Spring arises from openings in the Roubidoux Formation, an Ordovician unit of mixed sandstone and dolomite.[4] The spring discharges at the base of a ridge above Pine Creek, a tributary of Caney Creek which discharges into Bryant Creek just above its intersection with North Fork River and Norfork Lake.[1] The discharge of the spring is 0.8 cubic feet per second (0.023 m3/s) or 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 l) per day.[4]

References
  1. Sycamore, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968
  2. Ozark County Place Names, 1928-1945, State Historical Society of Missouri
  3. Rafferty, M. D., The Ozarks, Land and Life, University of Arkansas Press, 2nd ed, 2001, p. 281 ISBN 1-55728-714-7
  4. Major Springs of the Bryant Watershed


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