Zanoni is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in Ozark County,

Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...

, United States on Route 181, approximately ten miles northeast of Gainesville. A

watermill A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as mill (grinding), milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering. Such processes are needed in ...

(doubling as a

bed and breakfast A bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast. In addition, a B&B sometimes has the hosts living in the house. ''Bed and breakfast'' is also used to ...

) and a post office are all that remain of the community. The community was founded in 1898 and was named for the novel ''

Zanoni ''Zanoni'' is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration. By way of framing device, the author says: "... It so chanced that some years ago, in my younger days, whether of authorship or life, I felt the desir ...

'' by

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (; 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secr ...

. The mill was built in 1905 as an overshot wheel mill by "Doc" Morrison and restored by his grandson.Rafferty, M. D., ''The Ozarks, Land and Life,'' University of Arkansas Press, 2nd ed, 2001, p. 281 Zanoni 5

The mill is located where the Zanoni Spring arises from openings in the Roubidoux Formation, an

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon (geology), Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years f ...

unit of mixed

sandstone Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...

and dolomite. The spring discharges at the base of a ridge above Pine Creek, a tributary of Caney Creek which discharges into

Bryant Creek Bryant Creek (also known as Bryant River) is a stream in the Ozarks region of Missouri, United States. Bryant Creek has headwaters just west of Lead Hill and southeast Cedar Gap in southwestern Wright County and flows in a southeasterly direct ...

just above its intersection with North Fork River and

Norfork Lake Norfork Dam impounds the North Fork River in the U.S. state of Arkansas, creating Norfork Lake. The large reservoir is maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and spans Baxter County, Arkansas, Fulton County, Arkansas and Ozar ...

.''Sycamore, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968 The discharge of the spring is or per day.Major Springs of the Bryant Watershed
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Unincorporated communities in Ozark County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri Populated places established in 1898 1898 establishments in Missouri {{OzarkCountyMO-geo-stub