Jugtown Pottery was founded in 1921[2] by Jacques and Juliana Busbee, artists from Raleigh, North Carolina, who in 1917 discovered an orange pie dish and traced it back to Moore County.

There, they found a local tradition of utilitarian pottery in orange, earthenware, and salt glazes.

After the sudden deaths of Mare and Juliana in 1962, Owens leased the business and kept it going for six years, until it was sold to Country Roads, Inc., a nonprofit organization working toward the preservation of hand crafts.

She also developed a completely different line of complex colors, including Blueridge Blue, Cinnamon, a different Tobacco Spit, Mustard and Dogwood White.

This article about a property in Moore County, North Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.