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.[3] The mill was built in 1905 as an overshot wheel mill by "Doc" Morrison and restored by his grandson.[4]
The mill is located where the Zanoni Spring arises from openings in the Roubidoux Formation, an Ordovician unit of mixed sandstone and dolomite.[5] 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.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Sycamore, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968
- ^ "Zanoni ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ Ozark County Place Names, 1928-1945, State Historical Society of Missouri
- ^ Rafferty, M. D., The Ozarks, Land and Life, University of Arkansas Press, 2nd ed, 2001, p. 281 ISBN 1-55728-714-7
- ^ a b Major Springs of the Bryant Watershed