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The Lexington Historic Distillery District began in 1869 with the Headley and Farra Company and was continued by James E. Pepper and Company in 1879. In the late 1800s, the James E. Pepper Distillery sold whiskey to more than 90 brokerage houses across the U.S. under a number of different names and labels. In 1933, Schenley Products Corp. of NY purchased the distillery. Water from Town Branch provided steam power, and McConnell Springs provided water for the whiskey. The distillery closed in 1962, but the Distillery District, a major whiskey producer for more than 100 years with storage capacity for 150,000 barrels of bourbon, remained in service until 1976.
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Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky · United States
