In Bardstown, Kentucky, this collection preserves the commercial and cultural history of American whiskey from the colonial era through the 1960s within Spalding Hall, an 1826 landmark. Its extensive holdings include Abraham Lincoln’s liquor license, advertising posters, medicinal alcohol prescriptions from National Prohibition, whiskey bottles, and several moonshine stills, including one said to have possibly belonged to George Washington. With more than 3,600 bottles, including rare and one-of-a-kind bourbons and whiskeys, it is noted for the breadth of its artifacts. It also includes the Bardstown Historical Museum, linking whiskey history to local history from 1785 through the Civil War and beyond.