Walter Klepzig Mill and Farm

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Walter Klepzig Mill and Farm

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Klepzig Mill
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Location Along Rocky Creek in Ozark National Scenic Riverway, near Eminence, Missouri
Coordinates 37°07′30″N91°11′58″W / 37.12500°N 91.19944°W / 37.12500; -91.19944 Coordinates: 37°07′30″N91°11′58″W / 37.12500°N 91.19944°W / 37.12500; -91.19944
Area 121 acres (49 ha)
Built 1912 (1912)
Built by Klepzig, Walter; Brandt, Arthur C.
Architectural style Sawmill; box
NRHP reference # 90000001 [1]
Added to NRHP February 13, 1990

Walter Klepzig Mill and Farm is a historic farm and sawmill and national historic district located in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways near Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri. The district encompasses three contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and one contributing structure associated with an early-20th century Ozark farm and mill. It developed between about 1912 and 1936 and includes the mill (c. 1912) and its related hydraulic system (c. 1912-1935); a spring house and smokehouse (c. 1920-1925); foundations of a 1923 farmhouse and barn (c. 1920-1925); and two post-1934 chicken coops and a ruin of a post-1934 machine shed. [2] :2

Sawmill facility where logs are cut into timber

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. James P. Corless (February 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Walter Klepzig Mill and Farm" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 9 photographs from 1988)