vernon and hired a scotsman by the name of james anderson to be his plantation manager. and apparently all scotsmen know how to distill, or at least anderson did. and as soon as he was on the job, he lobbied washington and said if you'll pay for this, i can make you a lot of money by distilling whiskey. and washington, you know, initially said, you know, look, i don't know much about that, but we have letters that he wrote to friends of his asking their advice and they said as long as he can make a good product, there's no doubt, you know, it'll be successful. >> so he agreed and in 1797, they started here sort of in a small way using an existing building and brought a couple of stills. by the end of that year, they were convinced that it was going to be successful. so washington agreed to build the building behind us. so they bought three more stills and set it up. and by the early spring of 1798, it was up and running. >> this is a large building, looks like it was expensive to build. how did you get the funding for this? and how did you decide the architecture of it?

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