Green County Barn Quilts
The art guild the virgnia tourism board and the palette art gallery are sponsoring a barn quilt tour throughout greene county.
Green county barn quilts. Often the design of a quilt on a property is from a square of a family heirloom quilt. Enjoy a leisurely drive through greene county as you follow the self guided blue ridge barn quilt trail. Green county tourism green county courthouse 1016 16th ave. A barn quilt is a wooden structure on barns sheds fences and yards painted with a quilt design.
About barn quilts the green county barn quilts committee is looking for owners of barns corn cribs and other farm buildings who are interested in displaying a barn quilt. Bottom left to zoom. They joined together and created barn quilts of rock county painting the large blocks for their own barns and then expanding to paint for others interested in displaying the beautiful quilt blocks. Emerald green icon go indicate blocks that are large and or easy to see from the road.
Prairies parks a winding river. Cows grazing the lush green fields colorful barn quilts and picturesque dairy farms dotting the horizon. Quilts will be painted on a wood block typically 8 x 8 then hung on the building. The scenery along the way.
Self guided tour using the barn quilt locator map included in the green county visitor guide. Barn quilts are painted wooden squares designed like one block of a real quilt pattern generally 8 x 8 feet in size. The green county barn quilts project started in 2008 and by the end of 2010 the 100th barn quilt was installed. Scroll or click the buttons at the.
This project is based on similar projects in ohio iowa and the appalachian states. Click the box in the upper right corner of the map to go to the full page. A scenic driving loop from monroe into the northwest area of the county with barn quilts and country views along the way. Barn quilts came to rock county in 2010 when a few residents saw them popping up on barns in neighboring green county.
Monroe wi 53566 608 328 1838. Step on guided tours also available for groups. Google map where you can use their voice navigation instructions. With two trails and mile after mile of paved back roads green county offers the best biking in the region.
Discover more than 150 barn quilts that have been installed on historic barns on the back roads of green county. Now there are over 200 barn. Click on a marker to see more about each barn quilt.