If you visit this year, you'll get a ticket stub like this one.
It's the 200th anniversary of George's death, and they have his bedroom
made up like the day he died.. They also have a special funeral tour.
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If you visit this year, you'll get a ticket stub like this one.
It's the 200th anniversary of George's death, and they have his bedroom
made up like the day he died.. They also have a special funeral tour. |
On a sunny day, the mansion is truly impressive.
They had a reserved room just for the servants of guests; this room was
larger than the houses most families lived in at the time. |
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The grounds are absolutely stunning, and would not
be out of place in the swankiest of neighborhoods today. |
They've just finishing constructing this barn that
George himself designed. Turns out that he was growing more grain (his cash
crop) than he could economically process with his slaves. So he designed this
round barn, so that mules could walk around in circles and thresh wheat that
was laid on a slatted second floor. Much of this grain went to produce whiskey;
George was the largest supplier of grain for distilling in the area (another
way he made lots of money). |
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