SustainFloyd Awarded Tourism Grant for Artisan Trail
SustainFloyd is excited to announce plans for the first Floyd Artisan Trail Tour in June 2011 and to announce a grant award of $ 5,000 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation to assist in marketing the event. The Floyd Artisan Trail Tour is a week-long event featuring ‘Round the Mountain Artisan Trail sites of Floyd County, with activities at artisan home-studios, farms and farm stores, galleries and shops, and lodging sites and restaurants. While town-based trail sites will be participating, the event will...
Read MoreTourism Business Development in Floyd Opens with 9th Dist Development Funds
From Congressman Boucher’s web page after the Wednesday event in Floyd… The Station at South Locust will further the Town’s successful tourism development by providing twelve commercial spaces for local entrepreneurs. These include a new musical instrument store, which is affiliated with the Floyd Music School and sells instruments from local luthiers and artisans. In addition, the space contains five artisan studios and gallery shops and a large, new community market which will serve the craft...
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