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LOG CABIN POTTERY AND GIFT SHOP

 

 
Title Log Cabin Pottery and Gift Shop
Creator Log Cabin Pottery and Gift Shop
Subject Keyword :  Log Cabin Pottery ;  Ridgecrest, N.C.. ;  travel and tourism ; education  ; Appalachia ;Mrs. N.S. Hunter ; pottery ; crafts ;
Subject LCSH : Hunter, N.S. 
Historic buildings -- North Carolina -- Ridgecrest
Description A small craft industry with various gift shops located in western North Carolina in the 1920's.
Publisher D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor n/a
Date 2003-10-09
Type Collection ; Text ; photographs
Format virtual
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/blake/blake.htm
Source UNCA vertical file
Language English
Relation E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 ;
Coverage spatial Ridgecrest, North Carolina
Coverage temporal 1920's
Rights Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.  
Donor virtual
Acquisition  2009-12-01
Citation Log Cabin Pottery and Gift Shop, in Sense of Place, Western North Carolina Heritage, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff,  2009
Last update 2009-12-01
   
 
HISTORY
[As described in:"Land of the Sky" and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina, Great Smoky Mountains Publishing Co., Asheville, NC and Knoxville, TN, 1929.]

"One of the pioneer potteries of Western North Carolina maintains an attractive display and sales room at Ridgecrest, on No. 10 highway, about half way between Asheville and Marion, N.C., ... and also operates display rooms at Bat Cave, near Chimney Ro9ck, N/C. and at St Petersburg, Fla.  The pottery plant is located at Guilford N.C. consisting of a display cabin, a potter's cabin, a kiln where the clay is baked, the clay mill, and a storehouse.

While this pottery is not as large as some of the commercial potteries, it is unique in that it is the realization of a woman's dream. Its owner, Mrs. N.S. Hunter, has been modeling in clay since childhood, and this pottery now produces some of the most beautiful ornamental and useful pieces.

One of the most interesting features of the pottery is the giant vase weighing 2,000 pounds and measuring seven feet in height. It was made to test the clay and see how much bulk it could withstand. This jar has not been baked, but it is beginning to turn a very pretty shade of red from age.  The output of the Log Cabin Pottery is from 200 to 250 forms a week. "
 

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