Distillery Trail - Tales from the Trail Dan Scofield

Everyone knows George Washington was a General in the Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the United States. What a lot of people don’t know is that he was also one of our nation’s earliest serial entrepreneurs. Washington was a farmer, soldier, statesman, husband and beginning in 1797 a distiller. Yes, the same year he retired as the nation’s first President he started a distillery.