Jacob Spears House
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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
Bourbon Whiskey/Jacob Spears
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 1770s. One thing they often did after staking…