The First Peanut Museum, located in Waverly,Virginia.
Word still circulates every once in a while that peanuts grow on trees.
In fact, this museum is the only known museum devoted exclusively to the history of the peanut. This year marks the tenth birthday of this little peanut museum packed with loads of information. About 6,500 people from across the country visit the museum each year. A little bit of history The Miles B. Carpenter Museum, which honors one of Virginia's most famous folk artists, opened first in 1986. In 1990, under the direction of the late Lucye Hughes, museum workers collected more peanut information and transformed a former storage house into the nation's first and only Peanut Museum.