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Indian Point

Indian Point is Stone County’s largest resort area. Adjacent to the area’s largest attraction, Silver Dollar City theme park, and surrounded on three sides by the waters of Table Rock Lake, it’s no wonder that about 600 residents have established homes there. Comfortable resorts collectively offer about one thousand units to visitors, and well over 200 campsites are also available. Large marinas, restaurants and convenience stores are also within easy reach.

Indian Point’s business owners learned long ago about the strength of working together to promote and improve the area. They have kept the three-mile Indian Point Road paved and maintained, installed street lights and provide for other community needs.
Since incorporation as a village, the spirit of unity carries on in village improvements as well as a proactive program to provide for safe and healthful construction and operation of wastewater treatment systems to protect Table Rock Lake.
Few Indian Point homes are visible from the main road but sloping streets lead down to lakeside and lake view residences of all types.

Find your way around Indian Point with our great new interactive map.

History
A landmark near Indian Point contains some of the richest history – as well as promising future - in the region. Marvel Cave, which is part of the Silver Dollar City theme park, was part of the underground landscape long before Indian Point was created by Table Rock Lake; long before a theme park sprang up above it; long before humans inhabited the region.

Called Marble Cave when settlers began exploring southwest Missouri, the cave was originally thought to contain marble, according to research conducted by Silver Dollar City’s Public Relations Department. But its real riches were in the many tons of bat guano in its depths. Marble Cave Mining & Manufacturing, formed in 1884, mined guano for powder mills for $700 per ton. The town above the
cave was originally called Marble City. With the establishment of a post office, the name became Marmaros, the Greek word for marble.

After the mining industry had faded away and a fire took the town, the cave was acquired by the Lynch family who changed its name to Marvel Cave and opened it as a tourist attraction. The Herschend family acquired Marvel Cave in 1950. In 1954, the son of Marmaros’ former general store owner told the Herschends of the history of the mining town, and they found remnants of building foundations. In 1960, the Herschends opened a small themed park on the former Marmaros site over Marvel Cave and called it Silver Dollar City. The cave and theme park thrived and became a cornerstone of Stone County’s and the region’s tourism economy.