Big Sandy Milling Company

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

Big Sandy Milling Company
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Pike St. between Lock Ave. and RR tracks, Louisa, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°07′00″N 82°36′20″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1840
Architectural style	Antebellum Industrial
MPS	Louisa MRA
NRHP reference No.	88002045[1]
Added to NRHP	November 1, 1988

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. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. 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