Wetumpka, AL

If you are a Home Town fan girl, as I am, you’ll recognize Wetumpka, Alabama as the location of Ben and Erin Napier’s Home Town Takeover show. A contest was held by the Napiers to choose a small, struggling town to be made over and given a boost, and to serve as an example of what can be done by ordinary people to improve a town. Wetumpka was selected and was the focus of that TV show. And when I realized that we would only be forty minutes south of Wetumpka, well we just had to pay a visit.

Wetumpka is very pretty, and the images I’ll post here will look very familiar to fans of the show. Here’s what we saw. Coach’s Corner restaurant was spiffed up inside and out.

We didn’t go inside (having brought our lunch to eat in the car) but we did sit across the street from it while we ate. The Big Fish House is right in town, much closer to the main drag than I pictured it.

This house was used in the movie “Big Fish” and now Bob and I will have to see that film. It’s a beautiful home. 

The main shopping district is on Company Street, which has received a much needed spiffing up.

The shops are very pretty. We went into an art gallery called the Kelly Fitzgerald Memorial Gallery and had a blast poking around.

There are some amazing artists in town. 

And look who we ran into!

On our way out of town we stopped into Wetumpka Flea Market and Antiques, a multi dealer antiques store that had lots of fun things to see.

We enjoyed our visit to Wetumpka and recommend stopping here if you find yourself anywhere nearby.