Jacob Spears House

ID: 1962
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The Jacob Spears house is shown here on the right side of Clay-Kiser Road. On the left is the stone storage barn for whiskey. Courtesy of Hopewell Museum.

This file appears in: Bourbon Whiskey/Jacob Spears

By Hopewell Museum
Historical Marker #2295 in Bourbon County explains the history of bourbon whiskey and Jacob Spears, one of the first distillers in the county. Early settlers first came into central Kentucky in the…