No "On My Mac" in Mail to hide mailboxes

On my Macbook with Lion, my mail side bar listed "inbox" Junk" "trash" etc. and below that it had "On My Mac" and in that I had several mailboxes which I could hide or open.
On my new Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion that went away. I just updated to Mavericks and that didn't fix it either.
I've seen others have that problem and I'm wondering if someone figured it out. I don't have Drop Box as one person stated was his problem.
Thanks

The account’s Trash is where messages deleted from one of the other account’s mailboxes are moved. The “On My Mac” Trash is where messages deleted from one of the custom “On My Mac” mailboxes are moved.
There is more than one Trash mailbox because each mail account should have its own, which in turn makes it necessary to have yer another Trash for the messages that aren’t stored in any account-specific mailbox.
You can completely ignore the fact that there is more than one Trash by clicking on the black triangle to the left of the Trash group to collapse it, and treating it as if it was the sole Trash can in Mail.
Things are actually considerably more complicated than I’ve described, but you get the idea.

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