On June 24, 1921, the Daily News ran an article reporting that professor Charles H. Richardson, the head of the Department of Mineralogy at Syracuse and assistant geologist of Kentucky, was going to write a book about the quarries in this vicinity.

He was staying at the Mansard Hotel while in Bowling Green.

The book, titled “The Building Stones of Kentucky,” was published in 1923 by the Kentucky Geological Society and is available to read online for free at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL252489M/The_building_stones_of_Kentucky. The limestone quarried in Warren County has been used to build many of the buildings in Kentucky.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.