Mathias Willis Store House Explained

Mathias Willis Store House
Coordinates:37.1789°N -86.3594°W
Added:January 8, 1987
Area:9.7acres
Mpsub:Early Stone Buildings of Kentucky Outer Bluegrass and Pennyrile TR
Refnum:87000172

The Mathias Willis Store House, in Edmonson County, Kentucky near Windyville, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

It was built by Mathias Will as a "store house," serving river travellers. It is the only dry-stone building known in Edmonson County besides consumptive huts built within Mammoth Caves.

It is a single-room NaNfeet dry-stone store building, built on a bank above the Green River, in what was in 1983 a picturesque flat meadow. It is built of quarried, shaped stone that is "fossiliferous, oolitic, bioclastic limestone: Glen Dean member of lower Mississippian series."[1]

The site was listed for its archeological information potential.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=87000172}} Kentucky Historic Resources Inventory: Mathias Willis General Store House ]. National Park Service. rarolyn Murray-Wooley. December 1983 . May 5, 2018. With