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Bybee Pottery was a pottery company based in Bybee, a community in Madison County, Kentucky, USA.It was founded in 1809 by Webster Cornelison and members of the same Cornelison family continued to make and sell pottery until 2011.
Pottery at the Hardin site was similar to that made and found at other Fort Ancient sites. Women would use ground mussel shell as a tempering agent, it was added to wet clay and finely kneaded in. This technique of using ground mussel shell is a hallmark of Mississippian cultures to the south and west of the Fort Ancient, and displays how they ...
A corporate executive decided to increase the number of places that sold their stoneware from just one, A Taste of Kentucky, [7] to three additional locations in Louisville, and one apiece in Bardstown, Kentucky, Owensboro, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. [8] Since 2007, the company has remained owned by Stephen A. Smith. [4]
White Hall State Historic Site is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) park in Richmond, Kentucky, southeast of Lexington.White Hall was home to two legendary Kentucky statesmen: General Green Clay and his son General Cassius Marcellus Clay, as well as suffragists Mary Barr Clay and Laura Clay.
Clay tempered with sand, grit, crushed shell or crushed pottery were often used to make bonfire-fired ceramics because they provided an open-body texture that allowed water and volatile components of the clay to escape freely. The coarser particles in the clay also acted to restrain shrinkage during drying, and hence reduce the risk of cracking.
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.
Hadley Pottery was exhibited by the American Craftsmen's Educational Council in 1947, and at the Ceramic National Exhibit at the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts. [14] In 1952, Mary Alice Hadley received an award from the Museum of Modern Art's Good Design program [15] and her winning design, "Brown Dot" (or "Hot Brown Fleck"), was exhibited in New York and Chicago.
Location of Lewis County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lewis County, Kentucky. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Lewis County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and ...