Château Morrisette

HOURS:
Tasting and Sales
Monday. -Thursday - 10 a.m.-5 p.m
Friday - Saturday - 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 11a.m. - 5p.m.
Restaurant
Lunch: Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Sunday 11a.m. - 3p.m.
Dinner: Friday - Saturday 6p.m. - 9p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving Eve and Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Labor Day Gun Show & Flea Market

VFW Post 1115 has been sponsoring the Labor Day Gun Show & Flea Market since the late 1960s and it has become one of the biggest events of its type in the state --- perhaps in the nation.

Held every Labor Day weekend, Hillsville has become a bustling metropolis of flea market and gun show sellers and buyers half a million strong.

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Old Fiddler's Convention * Galax, VA

Before the second weekend in August each year, lovers of country and mountain music leave their homes in time to be in Galax, VA for the Annual Old Fiddler's Convention.

The Convention is dedicated to "Keeping alive the memories and sentiments of days gone by and make it possible for people of today to hear and enjoy the tunes of yesterday."

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Blue Ridge Parkway

The Parkway through Virginia offers spectacular views and interesting examples of Appalachian culture at places. The Appalachian Trail can be accessed from the Parkway at more than twenty overlooks and parking areas in Virginia, providing several opportunities to hike a section of this popular national scenic trail.

For interesting driving, you're in the right place, because nowhere else on the Parkway can you see such a variety of countryside, dipping from ridge top to valley floor and proceeding through pastoral rolling farmland.

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The Harmon Museum

The Harmon Museum features exhibits on Hillsville history, Indian artifacts, pioneer tools, antique military guns, and early folk music memorabilia. This is definitely an interesting museum for the person interested in historical artifacts of any kind.

Exhibits of local interest include the Hillsville Courthouse tragedy of 1912.

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The Sidna Allen House

In 1911 J. Sidna Allen and his wife, Bettie moved into the house which he had described as "the culmination of our dreams". One year later, Mr. Allen, who was one of the wealthiest men in the county, was involved in the shoot-out at the Carroll County Courthouse in Hillsville,Virginia.

The eight-room Queen Anne style house is unique to the County in it's architecture and distinctive features, which included detailed woodworking, iron crestings, corbeled chimneys and a slate roof. The house and lands were taken by the State of Virginia and sold at auction after the Courthouse Tragedy. In 1926, Mr. Allen was pardoned by the Governor, but he and his family never returned to this beautiful house.

Levering Orchard

Levering Orchard was founded in 1908 by Ralph Levering. Legend has it that he grew tired of having to stoop for a living. He wanted to reach for the sky as he picked his fruit.

Levering Orchard was primarily an apple orchard until the 1970s when Sam Levering had a major insight -- the several cherry trees planted near his and Miriam's home drew flocks of pick-your-own customers just as surely as the multitudes of hungry birds. There were never enough cherries to meet demand. Today Levering Orchard's primary crop is cherries.

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