Mill Creek Trade Grounds vendors offer product variety; lots of animals

Mill Creek Trade Grounds is located on East Tyler Street, off Highway 19 just south of Highway 64. The grounds are named for the creek that runs through the property.

More than five of the 19 acres are used for RV parking. This prime spot is a bit of a secret, because it is shaded with 100-year-old pecan trees and sports new restrooms and showers.

The McLemee’s also offer the convenience of the Puppy Palace to any individual who might have puppies for sale. The Puppy Palace has spacing for 50 vendors.

Primarily animals are sold at MCTG, but visitors can find just about anything they might want from other vendors.
Karen Willingham has been selling custom made clothing for animals at MCTG for three and a half years.

She has plenty of stories to tell about being a vendor at First Monday. She recalls the time she made red, white and blue dresses for the Fourth of July, for two goats.

Then, she laughs about a missed sale because she refused to touch a hairless rat to take measurements. Karen also has had the pleasure of designing an outfit for a pot-bellied pig.

She and her daughter spend the month sewing, and all her pieces are handmade.

Another vendor, Sue Copeland of J&S Metals, is affectionately known as the bird lady. She sells metal purple martin birdhouses.

She tells the story of a man from Louisiana who had the long term problem of no martins nesting in his martin house. A friend suggested that it may be because the martins didn’t know it was empty. Sure enough the day after he posted a vacancy sign martins moved in.

An Arkansas man and his wife decided to move but were reluctant to leave their full martin house behind. So, as his wife drove the nine miles down the hill to their new home the husband held the pole with the martin house and martins.

MCTG is only open on Canton First Monday Trade Days. For more information contact Evelyn McLemee at (903) 567-1177 or (903) 882-4817.