Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

The two story house visible through the trees on the hill to the right became the nucleus for Lester Klemme's Old Mill Lodge resort. Lodge guests, many of whom came from the St. Louis area, paid $7 per day and received meals in the house, swam and fished in the mill pond, and enjoyed the splendor of the northern Ozarks.

Klemme had four cabins built -- two small log ones near the house and two larger, clapboard-sided ones near the mill on the hill to the left. The "honeymoon cottage" was the log cabin nearest the two-story house. It is still standing.

After 30 years of operation, the Old Mill Lodge closed in 1962 following the death of Lester Klemme's wife, Virginia.

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