The Primitive Settlement, located in Cleveland, Tennessee, is the source of most of our antiques.

This settlement consists of nine log structures dating from the 1800s. An actual post office (with all original equipment), a dance hall (formerly used for square dancing), gift shop, blacksmith shop, five bedroom stone and brick home, barns, and several other structures.

All the buildings are furnished with hundreds and hundreds of fine period antique furniture, household items (cast iron cookware, stoneware, Victrolas, and many other items). The blacksmith shop is complete with tools, forges, and other blacksmithing equipment.

Many of the buildings have large antique display cases filled with various collectibles and Indian artifacts. In addition to the antique items there are literally thousands of collectibles contained in the various buildings. All this is nestled on eight acres with huge hundred year old oaks.

The Primitive Settlement  was established and run as a replica of how a mid nineteenth century village would have looked at the time  The contents of the buildings and the log cabins themselves were acquired by Horace and Lenell Thompson, put in place on the eight acres and operated as an avocation of passion until their deaths in 2001.

It is our hope that the antiques brought from the Primitive Settlement will capture your imagination and your eye as it has ours.