Mountain Craft Center copyrighted 2006, no copy, design or image may be used without the espress written permission of the Center. 

For information email Mountain Craft Center.   Site design by Dwight Bassett.

 

As written in The Cabin of Dreams by Samuel D. Perry “McCreary County, Kentucky is one of America’s best-kept secrets.  It is a place blessed with a multitude of natural treasures, including more than twenty-five stone arches, miles of clean, free-flowing streams, and Kentucky’s highest waterfall, Yahoo Falls.  It is heavily forested and drained by two major waterways, the Cumberland River and the Big South Fork.  Some eighty percent of the land is federally owned and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.”

   

 

 “For over forty years now, the Falls 4-H Mountain Craft Center has served the craftspeople of McCreary County.  It has become exactly what William Elmer Boggs and James A. Freeman had hoped it would become, a venue for the traditional arts and crafts       producers of this isolated segment of eastern Kentucky. Although it no longer is associated with the 4-H Program, it       proudly continues to bear witness, through its corporate name, to the heroic efforts of that organization to uplift young people in McCreary County and throughout the nation.”

 

Artisans who sell their products at the center come from diverse backgrounds.  Some of our members are students, educators, retirees, nurses, home makers, forest service workers, clerks and entrepreneurs to name just a few.  All are gifted. 

 

For more information on the history of the Falls 4-H Mountain Craft Center, call or email us about obtaining a copy of “Cabin of Dreams”, written by Samuel D. Perry.   Cost is only $4.50 plus postage & handling. 

 

In the midst of this scenic treasure is located the 4-H Mountain Craft Center, a non profit craft cooperativewith over 40 members.  Our historical log cabin was built on the site of a 200 acre land grant to John Abbot in 1842.  Abbot and his Native American wife, Oocella, lived in the cabin until 1863.  The cabin was used as a home by five generations until rebuilt as the 4-H Mountain Craft Center, established in 1963 as the first such center in the

United States developed by 4-H clubs.   Two of the people instrumental in the development of the center were William Elmer Boggs and James A. Freeman.