Mayberry is a REAL PLACE that the TV Town of the Andy Griffith Show Got its Name From!

Most People think of Mt Airy, NC as Mayberry and it is the home town of Andy Griffith but it's not where the TV town's name came from. Come along with me to the REAL Mayberry where Andy's Grandparents lived and he would visit during the summers as a kid.
Find the Mayberry Trading Post on Facebook at the link below
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[@theappalachianchannel]

Find the Mayberry Trading Post on Facebook at the link below facebook.com/mayberrytradingpost

[@todayisit3]

John...what you're doing is a very intrical part of keeping these historical places open. Many of us would never have known they even existed. Thank you John.

[@theappalachianchannel]

You’re welcome! Thank you

[@deltonwatts9726]

That is a great story of Mayberry and the history of the area and family...

[@LordUSABless]

Pam and Misty are the perfect people to take over the trading post. They have renovated it to such a truly beautiful standard. Truly enjoyed all the content in the video. 😊❤

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thanks

[@kimberlylyerly2207]

So amazing! God bless those ladies for carrying on. ❤🙏❤️ Thank you, John, for these videos. Childhood memories, time almost forgotten. Keep up these adventures. 🤗 Safe travels, my friend. 🙌

[@barbararose753]

Blessing

[@theappalachianchannel]

My pleasure! Thank you

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

I'm so glad they are keeping the store going. I go by every time I'm up that way. In fact, last night I wore one of their t shirts to a car show.

[@1954shadow]

“Mayberry State of Mind,” nailed it!

[@maureenwareham8822]

Please Keep making these videos. I imagine people will be wanting yo visit these places, maybe even moving locally, for a more Peaceful & wholesome lifestyle❤❤❤

[@maureenwareham8822]

What a beautiful storyline. History preserved is what life should be, otherwise, the younger generations, will never know their roots, and will never know their background. We all should want to know where we have come from❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thank you so much

[@Zathrian451]

My all time fav show!!

[@theappalachianchannel]

Yes indeed

[@deltonwatts9726]

John...thanks for sharing a great story!

[@theappalachianchannel]

You’re welcome

[@TheSassy777]

Great video John. Glad this Sweet Lady bought it and has brought it back to life in Mayberry….Thanks to Mayberry Trading Post….

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thanks so much

[@disco07]

Fascinating!

[@ericrominger8710]

Wow... in Meadows of Dan.... I will have to take a ride up there.

[@theappalachianchannel]

It is a must see place.

[@maureenwareham8822]

Another wonderful day in Mayberry! Thank you for the experience. I felt like I was on the tour with you. I felt like I was there. What a wonderful little trading post that she has. A lot going on for a little place. I have to add this area and mayberrys trading post, to my bucket list of places I must go to visit.❤❤❤❤

[@spayneutersaveslives9687]

What beautiful store!

[@ginamcknight8115]

Sooo nice! Mayberry is still my hubby’s favorite show.

[@sammytheswitch]

I really enjoyed this video. Loved all the surrounding places you included at the end. Fixin' to look them up on Facebook now.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed

[@kennethstuckey7823]

Hi John and Jodi..... Mayberry Trading Post! Wow! Such a beautiful, peaceful, and serene place with a lot of real history everywhere that is still alive. I could spend a long time inside that store, browsing through its fabulous inventory, buying things, and enjoying a conversation with Pam and her daughter, Misty....as I am sure that I can learn a lot from both of them. Pam and Misty have beautiful personalities that are genuine and kind, and I really appreciate and admire how Pam makes clear how much her family (past and present) means to her and how she wants to keep that store in the family. Awesome! What she has done with that store inside and outside is totally amazing! Yes, "she has turned the lights back on in Mayberry!" That place is definitely on my bucket list to visit! As for Mayberry, I can believe Andy Griffith purposely recognized Mayberry Creek, VA----now Meadows of Dan, Va (where his grandparents lived and he spent a lot of time) as the name of the fictional town of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show. That most likely was his way of paying homage to his grandparents and a beautiful place that was special and dear to him greatly. He also ensured that Mount Airy, NC (the town he grew up in), was recognized in the show as Mount Pilot (a larger town) in close proximity to the smaller Mayberry; just like the real Mayberry Creek/ Meadows of Dan, VA (a smaller town) is in close proximity to Mount Airy, NC (a larger town). This makes total sense to me, and I'm sure it is very accurate! I really enjoyed this video. GOD bless!

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thank you and that’s very true. God bless

[@margaretleehightower3073]

This is just Awesome thank you so much..what a wonderful lady and her ties to the place and love of it are priceless 💜💜💜💜

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jimmymalone3494]

I enjoyed your video on Mayberry trading post .Thank for sharing with us and God Bless you all.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@keithrobinson3784]

Bless this Lady for Preserving History.

[@suzukibn1131]

I wanna go!!! Love history. Bless you all for keeping it alive. ❤

[@SmokyMountainBlessed]

I really wanted to visit this area, while we were on vacation last week with family in Rural Hall NC, but my family had other plans so hubby and I need to make another trip there, we did go to Mount Airy though

[@theappalachianchannel]

We’re heading there tomorrow!

[@nadinejohnson2189]

🕊️ Congratulations!🎉 New Owners Mayberry Store 🏬

[@mrsc1952]

Just visited her last weekend....beautiful store

[@adaytripp]

Thank you for being a light in these dark times

[@georgekelly9797]

Thanks John for the tour, what a nice place to visit.

[@1954shadow]

Oh, I am going to check out the books in the store, for sure!

[@terryw.milburn8565]

Oh My ! So Happy You, John & Jodi Shared This Wonderful 'Ole 'Ole Timey Store With It's Owner For Us To See & Hear All That Is Going On There, Hoping You All Have Safe Journeys To Your Next Post, Tuned In From Sunny Canada ! Hugs For Lil Angel ATB T God Bless

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@FrankensteinLover]

So Glad you went here, I love this Place so much. This was such a Good video and the stories of Andy are wonderful. Now you gotta go to Mount Airy lol

[@theappalachianchannel]

Heading there tomorrow

[@FrankensteinLover]

@@theappalachianchannel Yesssssss can't wait to see your footage. Enjoy the Main Street

[@Roscoe_B]

Excellent !...

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thank you

[@JeepTJWheelin]

My family and I definitely live in the wrong part of Virginia. Absolutely love this area and the pace of thee real Mayberry.

[@ynoT_63]

Thanks for sharing this adventure. I stopped the video to look up "Mayberry Man" and watched the trailer. It reminded me of the 1991 Michael J Fox movie "Doc Hollywood". I grew up watching the Andy Griffith Show and still watch it to this day. I hope to get to visit these two places someday soon.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@PamWarwick]

We have visited this store several times over the years. In previous years we noticed it had become run down. When we visited this past May, 2023, we were so happy to find it has new owners and to see all they have done to the store. It’s a great place to visit. It’s one of our favorite stops on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We love it here. Anyone traveling the parkway needs to stop here. I’m so happy to see you do this video on this historic store. Hopefully, this will bring in lots of business for them. We plan to visit again in October. It’s beautiful here in the fall. Great video!!

[@deanbarr5740]

Awesome video John. Always enjoy your channel and the way life used to be. Thank you very much.

[@larrysmith6499]

Thanks for sharing. Great story

[@anniedunn3313]

I so enjoyed this video and finding the Mayberry Trading Post. Thank you for sharing such a historical site. Thank you for introducing us to Pam and Misty. Kudos to the renovation to the store. If I could travel again I would buy me some of that candy lol!

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@connie6623]

Great channel.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@Mrs.Frankenstein]

We visit this place as often as we can when we go to Mt. Airy! Such a great video John! We are so glad you made it!! Hope you enjoy Mt. Airy eat good at Barney's Cafe and make sure you go to the Andy Griffith Museum!!

[@charliepc56]

It's nice to know that there was a real place named Mayberry associated with Andy Griffith, and it is beautiful there. I hope to visit there someday. Thanks john and Jodi!

[@TheCrackerBox]

Also, Possum hollar garage has built several trucks for George Jones before he passed, and several other country singers

[@theappalachianchannel]

Cool

[@shatnersufolanded7785]

Everything you see online says John Dee Griffith (Andys Grandfather) married to Sallie Taylor was born and lived in Mt.Airy NC so this is quite confusing but I believe it to be based in Va no doubt about that I wish the writers of history would correct there stories. What a great video and documentation you did here John.

[@theappalachianchannel]

It was his mother that was from there, so it was on his mother side of the family. it’s not the Griffin side of the family.

[@barbarabriggs2439]

What a great story 😀😀

[@johnnyhawk329]

Awesome video. Keep up the important work of letting people know about these out of the way places. I sure it will help the businesses too.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thanks! Will do!

[@1954shadow]

“Mary Janes,” mmmMmmm!

[@ronmack1767]

Enjoyed the video interview / tour with Pam and Misty at the Mayberry Trading Post. Your just across the state line to the county we live in John, which is Surry County, Mt Airy, Pilot Mountain, Dobson and Elkin. I don't believe I remember Misty mentioning Nancy's Candy Company which is also in Meadows of Dan. We've got to check out this store. Thanks for the video. You and Jodie take care and God bless.

[@pamfrazier9154]

You’re right, we did forget Nancy’s. This was our first time doing this, so we were a bundle of nerves. Hopefully we will get better as we go along! 😊

[@pamfrazier9154]

Someone asked where Mayberry got its name. I can’t find the question now so I’ll answer here in hopes that they see it. Frances Maybury of Sussex County England came to the US in 1679. A descendent of his, Isaac Mabry obtained a land grant for 183 acres in 1792. This included Mayberry creek named in honor of Isaac Maybry. Variations of the names were caused by individual spelling. Some tax records list property from early 1800’s to 1870 showed all different spellings for same area.

[@robinunderwood7695]

Awesome.....Thank you for sharing I will definitely wanna visit this store 💙💙

[@theappalachianchannel]

You should!

[@larryjett3544]

Very good, I’ve been there many times.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Thanks so much

[@towntourin]

Andy Griffith was from Mount Airy, NC. A lot of the show was from that town. Floyds barber shop, even a police car ride/tour.

[@theappalachianchannel]

Heading there tomorrow

[@theduderinok2]

enjoyed that thank you!

[@ronosmianski812]

I enjoyed this video very much!

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@frankmarullo228]

Good job on this video John ! I watched the show when I was a kid.. Thank you for the memories. ( not to sound like Bob Hope ) . FRANK from montana.......

[@tinahiggins5789]

Love your channel

[@thetruthspeaksvolumesq4351]

Common sense would tell you that the name came from this store and she needs to have a campground behind this historical site store ❤😊 The handcrafted wood work she has for sale is gorgeous and costs a lot anywheres else ❤ I would have a cooking restaurant on this property 😊 This is amazing priceless ❤

[@michelleraney3577]

The movie Mayberry Man is on KZbin for free now. I watched it last night. It was cute!

[@janeylivingston3702]

Great video!

[@debramcdowell8083]

Great video! Thanks John and Jodi!

[@theappalachianchannel]

Our pleasure!

[@ericrominger8710]

I always thought that Mayberry & Mt Pilot on the show were really the towns of Mt Airy & Pilot Mtn NC. I do not get a hit on Mayberry VA on google maps. What is it near?

[@theappalachianchannel]

Look up Meadows of Dan, Mayberry is a community in that area.

[@sharonmckee2403]

Well, I found this do very interesting! Not sure when we will be up that direction… but sure would like to stop in if we get out there!

[@warrengilbert9100]

interesting video

[@theappalachianchannel]

Glad you think so!

[@Aprilwyatt0005]

Omg the Crossville general store use to have the stick candy!!! I loved stopping and getting it when I was little. It was $.10 a stick when I was little. 😊

[@theappalachianchannel]

hello there April! Tell Sadie I said hello!

[@Aprilwyatt0005]

@@theappalachianchannel I will!!

[@jillcain3488]

It is Meadows of Dan

[@theappalachianchannel]

Yes

[@johnhiscott-walsh5198]

♥

[@bluegrassers]

John you might be interested in videoing the Floyd Country Store in Floyd Virginia, the have bluegrass and old time music jams on Sunday’s and Friday night jamboree’s

[@the_eternal_student]

I wish all the world of this planet could consist of small towns surrounded by country. The one downside to the Andy Griffith show for me was the romance.

[@popmarbles6980]

'SECURITE' 'SECURITE' 'SECURITE' what a You Tube Channal this is... You're doing GOOD John!

[@richardmika2136]

ive never been able to find moon pies jo loues are similar to them

[@mizzprettyhuston]

Oh my goodness I would love to buy that wooden bowl on the top shelf (the one that's kinda rough and holey) @6:43 ......Do you happen to know the price?

[@jamesparham1467]

based on what Andy Griffin said it come from a guy named John mayberry

[@theappalachianchannel]

Yes, that’s true, but the name Mayberry came from Mayberry, VA. His grandparents lived there and he didn’t want people bothering them or standing in their yard taking pictures. So he would never admit where the name came from.

[@stoneycarroll702]

Mt. Airie N.C. is the Mayberry, that the Andy Griffith show is centered around.

[@theappalachianchannel]

You must not have heard in the video where Andys Mother was raised there in Mayberry and he would spend summers there with his grandparents. I will be posting the next part where we film in Mt Airy in a few days and you will hear the story of how the town in the TV show came from there.

[@stoneycarroll702]

@@theappalachianchannel I was referring to the show itself, I don't care where his mother was raised.

[@ronbass8136]

Thanks John, I didn't know there was a real Mayberry. How did Mayberry get it's name?

[@theappalachianchannel]

I’m not sure. It was named in the late 1700s

[@pamfrazier9154]

It got its name from a man named Isaac Mabry who got a land grant in 1792 of 183 acres near Robertson Creek. The name of the creek was changed to Mayberry Creek in honor of Isaac. Mayberry, Va. grew from that.

[@Joyce-kmt3]

She needs to sale fabric for quilting.

[@michaelcarmean4906]

It’s Is a City Called Mayberry 😳 Buy Not The TV Town Of Mayberry… That Was Fictional 🤩 The Real Mayberry Was Actually The City Of Mt Airy, North Carolina Where Andy Griffin Was Born

[@theappalachianchannel]

Yes, that’s true, but the name Mayberry came from Mayberry, VA. His grandparents lived there and he didn’t want people bothering them or standing in their yard taking pictures. So he would never admit where the name came from.

[@michaelcarmean4906]

@@theappalachianchannel There Is No Mayberry Virginia 🙄 Name Mayberry Was Fictional… This Story Is Folklore Not The Truth