| The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia, part of the Sautee Nacoochee Center, preserves and celebrates the region's folk pottery tradition, anchored by families like the Meaders and Hewell potters. The Meaders family tradition traces back to 1892, when John Milton Meaders loaded a mule-drawn wagon with pots crafted by his six sons and traveled to homesteads and communities near his Mossy Creek home to sell them, beginning traditions that endured into the twenty-first century. His son L.Q. Meaders later documented the family's importance to Southern Appalachian folk pottery while teaching at Brenau College in Gainesville. The Hewell family, based in the Gillsville area near Gainesville, has produced pottery for more than 150 years across seven generations. Permanent exhibits include more than 180 items of northeast Georgia folk pottery, video, dioramas of pottery use, paintings and photographs spanning two centuries of continuous development of this distinctive folk art. The museum also hosts a Folk Pottery & Arts Festival each year, alongside rotating special exhibitions on individual potter families. |
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| The Museum is open Monday-Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm; Sunday 1:00-5:00 pm. Admission is free. | ||
| Contact - Location & Directions | ||
| Phone: 706-878-3300 ext. 307 Location: 283 GA Hwy 255 N, Sautee Nacoochee Georgia Directions: 1/4 mile north of the junction with GA Hwy 17, just 4 miles southeast of Alpine Helen - Folk Pottery Museum Website |
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