Wattie Boone
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Wattie Boone
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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 travell
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