Roscoe "Rossie' Turner Kirkland: Dolly Dear Dollhouse Accessories
Channel: Discovery Park of America
Date: 2021-03-10

As we celebrate Women’s History Month at Discovery Park, we are making people aware of the women featured in our museum and heritage park.

On display in the Simmons Bank Children's Exploration Gallery, is a collection of Dolly Dear dollhouse accessories. Dolly Dear was founded by Roscoe Turner Kirkland of Union City, Tennessee in 1927. Known as "Rossie," she was the grandmother of Discovery Park founder, Robert Kirkland. She found ingenious ways of transforming everyday items into accessories for dollhouses. The first shipment of handmade miniatures went to a Nashville, Tennessee department store in 1928, and twenty years later, her company would be sending products all across the globe.