Whiskey had a staggering effect on our history from the get-go. George Washington slept here. He also made whiskey here, very bad whiskey. When Washington returned to Mount Vernon in 1797 after serving two terms as president, his Scottish plantation manager, James Anderson, suggested that he use the farm’s excess grain to make whiskey. Washington …
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