Big Sandy Milling Company

Big Sandy Milling Company
Location Pike St. between Lock Ave. and RR tracks, Louisa, Kentucky
Coordinates 38°07′00″N 82°36′20″W / 38.11667°N 82.60556°W / 38.11667; -82.60556 (Big Sandy Milling Company)Coordinates: 38°07′00″N 82°36′20″W / 38.11667°N 82.60556°W / 38.11667; -82.60556 (Big Sandy Milling Company)
Area less than one acre
Built 1840
Architectural style Antebellum Industrial
MPS Louisa MRA
NRHP reference # 88002045[1]
Added to NRHP November 1, 1988

The Big Sandy Milling Company, in Louisa, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

It has also been known as the Louisa Supply Company, the Louisa Flour & Feed Co., and as Louisa Milling Company.[2] It was located on Pike St. between Lock Ave. and railroad tracks.[1]

It was a three-story post-and-beam structure with a full basement. The posts were 12 inches (0.30 m) to 14 inches (0.36 m) square.[2]

It was deemed significant as it probably was Louisa's oldest extant industrialand commercial establishment and it had "reinforced Louisa's regional status as a trade town, as it would bring area farmers here to trade their grain or to get it processed", and it was "a rare example of post and beam/mortise and tenon construction of such a large building for Eastern Kentucky."[2]

Site, in 2014

The building appears to have been demolished by 2014.

References

  1. 1 2 3 National Park Service (2013-11-02). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 Dorinda Kim M. Blackey (September 1985). "Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Big Sandy Milling Company / Louisa Supply Company; Louisa Flour & Feed Co.; Louisa Milling". National Park Service. Retrieved May 8, 2018. With accompanying three photos from 1985
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