The Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead consists of a group of five buildings contained within a 150' x 150' tract which date from the occupancy of Levi Morrill (1893-1926). These buildings are: the Notch, Mo. ("Uncle Ike's") Post Office, the Levi Morrill homestead, a well house, smokehouse and privy...
The Levi Morrill Post Office and Homestead are significant for having survived into the present time as virtually unaltered examples of Ozark commerce and culture in an area where other such examples have entirely vanished. The Post Office is additionally significant as the model for "Uncle Ike's Post Office" depicted in Harold Bell Wright's popular novel, "The Shepherd of the Hills.
Levi Morrill, his son,and neighbors, built the Post Office building, the adjacent clapboard Homestead, and outbuildings, of native materials following their arrival in the Ozarks in 1893. The structures remain virtually unmodified today on approximately one acre of ground that also contains a few of the diminishing specimens of first growth native pine, oak and maple.
The post office and homestead are maintained as tourist attractions/museum. A horse trail ride operation is run from the homestead during the summer months.