2024 Prairie Days at Patti’s 1880s Settlement

Get ready Kentucky!

The cast from Little House on the Prairie is hitching up the wagons and headed to Patti’s 1880s Settlement in Grand Rivers, KY, on April 5th-7th for one most amazing & unique experience. We are celebrating 50 years of the Little House on the Prairie TV Show.

In 1975, Bill and Patti Tullar stopped in Grand Rivers and fell in love with the little town and shared a love for the Land Between the Lakes area and purchased the Grand Rivers Motel.

In 1977, Bill, Patti, Chip and Michael Lee, started Hamburger Patti’s Ice Cream Parlor. The restaurant was a block building that was part of the 6-unit motel. The motel units quickly gave way to becoming dining rooms.

The upstairs room and lavatory (with our treasured cast-iron, footed bathtub and Indian Joe) was the Tullar’s personal living room and bath. Patti’s 1880’s Restaurant was on it’s way.

Bill soon got tired of being called Mr. Patti, so the boys built him a restaurant of his own in 1990. Mr. Bill’s was designed with added entertainment to accomodate bus tours. Bill's had Honky Tonk piano players and the hostess and servers were dressed in period costumes.

Through growth and success Mr. Bill's became more dining rooms for Patti's 1880's Settlement. Today Mr. Bill’s has the same food, same servers – everything is the same except for the room size.

Great food and great presentation at great prices is Patti’s claim to success, but as Chip (the oldest), always said, “There has to be more to create a truly memorable impression.”

Patti's has always been a family kind of place. We welcome the little ones and planned for their entertainment by adding a small animal walk through park, 18 hole miniature golf, a playground, mining and remote control boats.

Today, our two restaurants serve over 350,000 people each year, in our little town of 350 people. People come from many states for our great food, beautiful gardens and Patti's great southern hospitality. Our log cabin settlement offers a wide variety of shopping with names such as Brighton, Fontanini, Spartina, Anju, Lizzy James and Music of the Spheres Chimes.

They do sincerely appreciate your business and always want you to be happy with your Patti's experience. The entire staff at Patti’s invite you to bring your family and friends, to join with ours, in celebrating the positive things life has to offer. Good food, local history, simpler times, beautiful gardens, a day on the lake, a lazy afternoon with comfortable conversation and friendly, smiling faces!

You’re gonna LOVE it! And now we are bringing in the Little House cast back again!

LHOTP original cast members confirmed for the 2024 Prairie Days will include: Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson), Charlotte Stewart (Miss Beadle), Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder), Wendi Lou Lee (Baby Grace Ingalls), Pamela Roylance (Sarah Carter) & Jennifer Donati (Baby Rose Wilder), David Friedman (Jason Carter) & Olivia Barash (Sylvia Webb).

A Friday Night LHOTP M**der Mystery Dinner will take place in the Restaurant Banquet Center at 6:30 pm. The dinner will feature Patti’s famous pork chop or a chicken breast and all the fixins! Now, here where it gets good! The evening will feature a M**der. Who did it? And who will be the victim? Dinner is limited to 90 people. Ticket price is $175 and includes a photo with the LHOTP cast. This will sell out quickly.

Saturday & Sunday VIP Breakfasts will be held at 8:30 am with the LHOTP cast. VIP Breakfast tickets are limited to 90 guests and are $100 each. This will also sell out quickly.

The LHOTP on the Prairie meet and greets will be held Friday noon- 4pm, Saturday from 10 am- 4pm & again on Sunday noon-4pm. Ticket Cost is just $12. Kids 3-12 are just $6. The cast will be available for photos, autographs and will have a huge variety of their merchandise for sale. It will be held on the historic back porch of Ashley’s Boutique. Such a fantastic setting.

Other activities are being confirmed an added soon.

It all happens at Patti’s 1880s Settlement located at 1793 JJ OBryan Ave on April 5-7 in Grand Rivers, KY!

For information email: [email protected].

Host or Publisher Pickerville, USA