Louis and Billie Van Dyke, owners of  the Blue Willow Inn Restaurant in Social Circle, an icon of Southern dining and hospitality since 1991, created the Blue Willow Village, it is a complex of retail shops and a museum on property adjacent to the restaurant.

The Blue Willow Village architecture is turn of the 20th century Victorian style and includes seven retail businesses housed in Victorian cottages. The Village will also include a strip building patterned after early 20th century downtowns, which will house a museum and 1950’s soda fountain.

The Blue Willow Village includes Joseph Hurt Studio and Creation and Natural History Museum  The museum has 12,000 square feet of museum displays and a gift shop. Featured will be natural history displays from the age of dinosaurs depicting the magnificence of Creation. Joseph Hurt Studio designs and builds robotics animals and their robotic creations are displayed worldwide.