Archaeologists unearthing distillery in George Washington's home!

Duluth News Tribune ^ | Posted on Tue, Oct. 08, 2002 | By MATT STEARNS

[vannrox]

Very intersting.
I wondered if he had to ask the English Government if he was permitted to operate a still on his property? Hummm...?

[Izzy Dunne]

I wondered if he had to ask the English Government if he was permitted to operate a still on his property?

Huh? from the article:
Washington got into the liquor business in 1797,

Why would he care about the Brits at that time?

[RISU]

You are looking at this through the eyes of a modern day debt-economy enslaved person.

Washington was a farmer, and so he had all that stuff.

[M. T. Cicero II]

He also grew hemp for medicinal use. There is a diary entry in which he talks about "sexing" the plants. And there is only one reason to sex hemp plants.

[shadowman99]

Witness another one of nature's flighty hummingbirds, the Libertarian... Take your "hemp for victory" line somewhere else.

[M. T. Cicero II]

On the contrary, I am a conservative Republican and do not use nor advocate the use of marijuana. I find the activities of our ancestors very interesting. I also find revisionist history interesting. Some would find the alcohol story offensive and some would find the hemp story offensive. I love the history and the "humaness" of people from the past.

For example, when the Henry Ford museum was cataloging the personal items from his estate, they found an opium scale and (well-used) pipe, a small bottle of hemp, and 5 rolled hemp cigarettes. Accompanying the photo of these items, in the caption, is a statement to the effect of: "I can't imagine what these were used for."

[Darksheare]

SO then, what's your take on the second amendment then?

[Eternal_Bear]

Jefferson also grew marijuana....er... I mean hemp. Of course that was when people were truly free and before we became property of the Central Government. BTW, I despise all drugs.

[bonesmccoy]

[Don Corleone]

BTW, I despise all drugs

Even Asperin and Caffine? MY oh My.

[Willie Green]

I wondered if he had to ask the English Government if he was permitted to operate a still on his property? Hummm...?

The Brits already got the boot.

"Washington got into the liquor business in 1797, after a new plantation manager persuaded the recently retired president that he could make a lot of money at it, said Dennis Pogue, associate director of preservation at Mount Vernon."

JMHO, but I think it likely Washington may have gotten the idea from the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794.

[Slyfox]

He also grew hemp for medicinal use.

From what I've read, they grew hemp back then because it was a great material used in making ropes.

[Slyfox]

He also grew hemp for medicinal use.

From what I've read, they grew hemp back then because it was a great material used in making ropes.

[Willie Green]

You know, this is actually a discovery of very scandalous abuse of Government power by Washington. Under Madison's heinous whiskey tax, George Washington ordered the mobilization of 12,950 troops from eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey in August 1794 to attack all the small distillers who ignored the burdensome tax.(It certainly set the stage whereby only "big corporations" such as himself could afford to be in business through economies of scale!) The tax on whiskey was not repealed until 1802 by Jefferson.

This is indeed, very, VERY scandalous!!!

[marsh2]

Washington was also a surveyor early in his life. If I remember correctly, he was a speculator - involved in several inside deals to his advantage in Ohio.

[Willie Green]

Re: My replies #13 & #16:

If this article is true, I am absolutely nauseated at what a corrupt SOB George Washington was!

[Willie Green]

Hey lewis, look at this!
G. Washington apparently used the whiskey tax and the military to force the "little guys" out of business and line his own pockets!

[southernnorthcarolina]