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"Perhaps the most tangible — and eloquent — echo of Ozarks-past is an old water mill. Looming out of the river's morning mists a shadowy, multistoried millhouse seems almost haunted, a fading reflection of a vanished way of life. It fosters the feeling that through narrowed eyes we might glimpse the teeming activity that once attended it.

"Nowhere is that more apparent than at the surviving water mills in Ozark County..."

— page 346, Rossiter, Phyllis, A Living History of the Ozarks, Pelican Publishing Company Inc., 1992, 2001, 2006.
Throughout the Ozarks, mills are often overlooked by other, more popularized elements of the region.

It is with anticipation that this editor looks forward to reporting on the mills of the Ozarks.

— Joshua Heston
Artwork detail, Sullivan's Mill. Artist: Joe Benjamin. Location: Silver Dollar City, Missouri
The above art is a pen & ink rendition of the mill in Silver Dollar City. It was created by Joe Benjamin, an extremely talented craftsman. More can be read about Joe (here) — the editor