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A tiny town in the Piedmont is the pottery capital of the U.S. This weekend, thousands of people will attend The Celebration of Seagrove’s Pottery Festival and Studio Tour. While there are ...
The North Carolina Pottery Center is a museum which highlights the Seagrove region's pottery traditions. Seagrove's pottery tradition dates back to the 18th century before the American Revolution. Many of the first Seagrove potters were Scots-Irish immigrants. They primarily produced functional, glazed earthenware. Due to the high quality of ...
Nell Cole Graves (1908 – February 17, 1997) was a potter from Seagrove, North Carolina, and a winner of the 1996 North Carolina Heritage Award. [1]Graves grew up in Montgomery County, North Carolina, with her father, Jacon B. Cole, and her brother, Waymon Cole.
Jugtown Pottery was founded in 1921 [2] by Jacques and Juliana Busbee, artists from Raleigh, North Carolina, who in 1917 discovered an orange pie dish and traced it back to Moore County.
The Cole, Auman, Owen, Teague, and Albright families are eighth- and ninth-generation potters in Seagrove and the surrounding areas. Some of the oldest, historic pottery locations still in operation include the "Original" Owens Pottery founded in 1895 [ 4 ] and Jugtown Pottery founded in 1921. [ 5 ]
Lula Bolick is a fifth generation potter, her great-grandfather having started what is now ("Original") Owens Pottery near Seagrove, North Carolina. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Bolicks started Bolick Family Pottery (now known as traditions Pottery), which is located in Blowing Rock, North Carolina .
Dorothy Cole Auman belonged to the eighth generation of a potter family: her father owned a pottery business but wasn't a potter himself, though her grandparents and cousin were avid potters. Her ancestors came to the Seagrove area in the 1760s because of the plentiful potting clay and kiln fuel. [ 1 ]
Owens Pottery of North Carolina, also known as Original Owens Pottery is the oldest, continuously-operating pottery in North Carolina. [1] [2] It sells a variety of traditional, functional clay products and is best known for its difficult-to-produce fire red glazed pottery.