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Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead, also known as Uncle Ike's Post Office, is a historic
post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...
located at Notch,
Stone County, Missouri Stone County is located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,076. Its county seat is Galena. Stone County is part of the Branson, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hist ...
. The property includes five contributing buildings dated between 1893 and 1926. They are the Notch, Missouri ("Uncle Ike's") Post Office, the Levi Morrill homestead, a well house,
smokehouse A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more.
and
privy Privy is an old-fashioned term for an outdoor toilet, often known as an outhouse and by many other names. Privy may also refer to: * Privy council, a body that advises the head of state * Privy mark, a small mark in the design of a coin * Privy Pur ...
. The post office is a one-story, rectangular, gable roofed frame building. It was the model for Uncle Ike's Post Office in
Harold Bell Wright Harold Bell Wright (May 4, 1872 – May 24, 1944) was a best-selling American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. Although mostly forgotten or ignored after the middle of the 20th century, he had a very successful career; he is said to hav ...
's novel '' The Shepherd of the Hills''. (includes 10 photographs from 1978) It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1979.


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Post office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Government buildings completed in 1893 Buildings and structures in Stone County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Stone County, Missouri {{StoneCountyMO-NRHP-stub