"Seagrove - Potters Community" Seagrove by FreeCloud

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Seargrove is a village/town where 70+ pottery families located, being some of them 9th generation potters.

The potters are scattered in the Seagrove area in a countryside settings.

Besides a tiny yet interesting pottery museum in Seagrove, the best way to visit those potters is to visit each's workplace/house/store.

Once you are in Seagrove, you can easily pick up/buy a copy of potters directory ($2-3/copy) with a MAP for most of the potters in Seagrove area. Each pottery's name, address, phone numbers, open time, type of designs (saltware, earthware, crystalized, etc - from very traditional to modern techniques and designs) are listed in the directory. I go browse through the directory and mark the ones I am interested, then drive around to find them.

My preference is to visit the potters that I am interested in by driving around in the countryside, mean while enjoy the country scene.

If you do not have time visiting many potter's houses/workplace/store, you can also go to several major stores in the area or the Pottery Fair held annually during Thanksgiving time (but be prepared to be in the crowds).

Here is the map of the potters:
http://www.ils.unc.edu/seagrove/homepage1.html

More details about some of the potters in NC:
http://www.cclay.com/

A few websites:
Blue Moon Gallery:
http://www.atomic.net/~bluemoon/gallery/

Jugtown Pottery Store (should not be missed):
http://www.jugtownware.com/

King's Pottery:
http://www.kingspottery.com/folkart.htm

How to get to Seagrove:
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The Seagrove potters are located mainly along the area of Hwy 705 vicinity between Seagrove and Hwy 24/27. Yes, the town WHYNOT is at the middle of this roadway segment.

Seagrove can be reached by Hwy 220 S from Ashboro, or other country roads (my preference, to enjoy the countryside).

To Ashboro:
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From Charlotte:
Hwy 49 East (more scenic not much traffic, but some traffic lights) or I 85 East to Ashboro
Other country roads lead to Seagrove as well.

From Triangle Area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill)
Durham/Chapel Hill:
-Hwy 15/501 S to Pittsboro
-then Hwy 64 W to Ashboron
-then Hwy 220 S to Seagrove
OR: I85/I40 W to Ashboro then Hwy 220 Seagrove

Raleigh:
-then Hwy 64 W to Ashboron
-then Hwy 220 S to Seagrove

Search 'seagrove pottery' (without quotation marks) with www.google.com, one will find lot websites with the info about Seagrove Pottery community.

Enjoy!