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Make Tennessee your destination for craft and antique excursions. Weave throughout the shops of our three regions or handcraft your trip around craft-specific guilds and galleries. Sample handmade quilts, musical instruments, pottery, metalworks, jewelry, clocks, baskets, furniture and folk art. Carve out Tennessee specialties at museums such as Museum of Appalachia or state-wide festivals. Find your treasures in Tennessee's craft and antique communities and learn the art of memory making.

Trenton's City Hall at 309 S. College Street, holds the largest collection of teapots at 526 items. The beautiful and rare porcelain veilleuse-theieres, or night-light teapots, were created to comfort the sick with light and medicinal tea in Asia, Europe and Africa (c.1750-1860). The collection was donated to the city by Dr. Frederick C. Freed and is estimated to be worth more than $3 million.

The Museum of Appalachia is considered the most authentic and complete replica of pioneer Appalachia life in the world. It is 65 acres of authentic log structures, a craft and antique shop, a restaurant, the Appalachian Hall of Fame and several other buildings representing and displaying the people of early Southern Appalachia. Experience Tennessee as it was in the early 1700s at the Museum of Appalachia.

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