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Wattie Boone
Walter "Wattie" Boone, was a pioneer distiller. He built the first distillery in the area of Knob Creek in LaRue County. Historians agree that Boone was one of the first to be documented producing Bourbon whiskey in Kentucky in 1776. According to local folklore the father of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas accepted a job at the Boone Distillery in 1814. Boone was a pioneer to the area. It was a time of sieges and skirmishes with local tribes. Boone would have been part of a group of settlers who travelled through the Cumberland Gap, at the time Samuel Goodwin, founded Goodin or Goodwin Fort, as a frontier settlement of Virginia. Following the American Revolutionary War more settlers arrived. By the time Kentucky established statehood over this area, Boone's neighbor, Aaron Atherton and his son, Peter Atherton (1771–1844) had been operating a small distillery on the banks of Rolling Fork (Kentucky), Rolling Fork River at Knob Creek for over thirty years, since around 1790 making them also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaRue County
LaRue County is a County (United States), county in the central region of the U.S. state of Kentucky, outside the Bluegrass Region and larger population centers. Its county seat is Hodgenville, Kentucky, Hodgenville, which is best known as the birthplace of United States President Abraham Lincoln. The county was formed on March 4, 1843, from the southeast portion of Hardin County. It was named for John LaRue, John P. LaRue, an early settler. LaRue County is included in the Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, Kentucky, Fort Knox, KY Elizabethtown metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville/Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Bardstown, KY, Bardstown, KY-Indiana, IN Louisville metropolitan area, Combined Statistical Area. It is a prohibition or dry county. Geography The low rolling hills of LaRue County have been largely cleared and devoted to agriculture or urban development, with only the drainages of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
