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 we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
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 we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
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 we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
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 we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and show what it would have been like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. Relate tothese two each other . Washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon and he
Major distillery here, and it was a very important part of the plantation economy. Historians have known this for a long time, but about 10 years ago, we decided that we wanted to explore that. We came out here with archaeologists, excavated the site, found were the distillery where the distillery had been located, did about five years of excavation and research, and decided that we had a wonderful opportunity to bring this back and to show what an 18thcentury distillery was like. You cant see this anywhere else in the country. There is a gristmill here as well . How do these two relate to each other . Dennis pogue the reason the gristmill is here is because washington already had a gristmill that was a major part of the plantation. He made lots of money off of it over the years. In 1797, at the end of his second term as president , he was getting ready to come back to mount vernon, and he hired a scotsman by the name of James Anderson to be his plantation manager. And apparently all s