Local folders in Mail

Hi, I have a problem to create a new "Local Folder" in my Mail program. I am talking about local folders which I can see in right gray panel in Mail program ( Inbox, Smart Mailboxes, Reminders, RSS and On My Mac - local folders).
These folders was created when I moved my all e-mail from external HD. I can not find these folders on my Macintosh HD.
Any suggestion, please.

yes, Mac OS is good ( Idid not know about it until move from PC to Mac last week).
I found this folder: Mac HD-Users-choose admin or user - library-mail-mailboxes-LOCAL FOLDERS.
If you want to add a folder - put a new folder in there and name it with extension .mbox.
It is so simple.

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Thanks very much for the help.
I seem to have found that moving a folder from an IMAP account to the On My Mac account does in fact work. The only problem I am seeing is that the old folder remains in the IMAP account which basically makes it a little difficult to know for a fact that all the mail in that folder has been moved over. I wonder if it is possible to /force/ a move in this instance...
I suppose the alternative is in fact to create a new folder on On My Mac and to move the individual emails as you seem to suggest.
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