CSPAN3 American Artifacts January 1, 2017
My name is dennis pogue, i am the Vice President of preservation here at vernon and we are standing in front of a reconstruction of washingtons distillery. Not only most people have no idea that washington was not only first in war, first in peace, but also owned the first distillery. This was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologist, excavated the distillery were the had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided ...