Bybee Pottery

Type	Private
Founded	1809
Headquarters	610 Waco Loop, Bybee, Kentucky, USA
Key people	Walter Cornelison, Owner; Buzz Cornelison, Owner; Harvey Conner, Potter
Industry	Pottery

Bybee Pottery, is a 200-year-old 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 continue to make and sell pottery today. Bybee Pottery sells a wide variety of products and encourages customers to interact with the artisans and tour the building that has survived six generations and the Civil War.^[1]

Bybee Pottery is considered the oldest pottery operation in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains. Employees still procure the yellow clay from a nearby source close to the banks of the Kentucky River. A family cousin, Ron Stambaugh, owns a retail outlet that sells Bybee pottery among other items under the name, A Little Bit of Bybee. Although rumors and news reports suggest the business is soon to close, the current owners have no plans of closing the doors.^[2]

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• Little Bit of Bybee (Retailer)
• Bybee in Frankfort (Retailer)