William Johnston Lime Kiln

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 153 National Register listings published here for Waukesha County · listed in 1982 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Johnston, William, Lime Kiln - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E of Genesse Depot, Saylesville, 53189
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. structure
Also known as. Lime Kilns of Waukesha County TR
Town. Genesee town
National Register reference number. 82000723 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Genesee town. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 - Genesee Town

Town Of Mukwonaco

WILiIilAM ADDENBROORE, farmer. Sec. 9; P. 0. North Prairie; born 1832, in Staffordshire, Eng. ; is a son of Hy. and Harriett (Johnson) Addenbrook, who are now residents of Liverpool, Eng. ; Mr. A. studied in the schools of his native land, taking a medical course at the Birmingham Hospital; he practiced medicine on the ocean packet-ships, and in the American and English seaports, until 1852, when he came to Wisconsin and bought his present farm of 120 acres; was for nine years in the grain and mercantile business at North Prairie, selling his store and elevator, in 1875 ; has since devoted himself to his farm and apiary ; his first swarm was captured in the woods about twenty years ago ; was for a time in partnership with George Grimm, whose father, Adam G., of Jefferson, Wis., was the most successful apiarian on the continent, and first introduced the Italian bees ; the partnership was dissolved in 1879, Mr.

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The ground it stands on

50,052 words

This property stands in Genesee Town. The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers the township.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Genesee Town - 50,052 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of William Johnston Lime Kiln between 2008 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	518
7 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	129
27 April 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	202
23 April 2008	Arson/incendiarism	38 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
19 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	192
11 April 2018	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	120
10 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	2049
23 March 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	165

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of William Johnston Lime Kiln: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Genesee Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Perrens Quarry	Stone	Unknown
Bishop Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Genesee Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit Wolf Constr.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saylesville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Saylesville	$12,000	Multiple trees and power lines down from Vernon to the southern portion of Waukesha.
April 2025	Hail	Saylesville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waukesha County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Saylesville Historic District	1.2 miles	2003
J. C. Booth House	2.0 miles	1973
Genesee Woolen Mill Site	2.3 miles	2017
Barney House	2.4 miles	1994
Genesee Town Hall	2.6 miles	1981
Owen and Margaret Oliver House	2.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000723 in Record Group 79.
Waukesha County	All 153 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.