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umor has it
that granny
came to
Silver Dollar City in
1827 to get supplies
from the general store. Outraged that
she had to wait a month for a wagon
train to get them there from out east
and the cost of things like lye soap
because of it, she decided then and
there to make it herself. She joined
other locals, and set up shop to sell
homemade wares at Silver Dollar City.
That is the story posted outside of
Granny’s Lye Soap specialty shop in
Branson, Mo., Silver Dollar City
(SDC) and don’t you believe a word of
it. The true story is that SDC is a replicated
old time mining town-themed
amusement park built in the 1960s at
the mouth of Marvel Cave to entertain
waiting spelunkers for the day.
And Granny’s real name is Martha,
who grew up in Ozark Mountain
country and made the soap with her
grandmother and great-grandmother. After living in
California for a time she and her husband returned to the
region, and she really does demonstrate daily at SDC how
she makes a mild modern day soap, in some 13 scented varieties.
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