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Built in 1805, this National Historic Landmark is America's oldest working distillery still in its original location along Hardin Creek in Loretto, Kentucky. In 1953, Bill Samuels, Sr. purchased what was then Burk's Spring Distillery. He began experimenting with the old family recipe tracing back to 1780, replacing the rye with red winter wheat.

Samuels' wife, Margorie, was the creative mind behind the bottle. As a collector of pewter marked by their maker and cognac bottles dipped in wax, she was inspired to create the family symbol SIV, Samuels 4th generation. This led to the name Maker's Mark and the signature bottles hand-dipped in red wax.

After all of the Samuels' hard work and innovation, the first bottle, aged 6 years, was sold in 1959, but the company didn't make its first profit until 1967. That same year Bill Samuels, Jr. joined the family business and then in 1968, Bill and Margorie's daughter, Leslie, created the first visitor's program.

In 1980, Maker's Mark was the first alcoholic beverage facility to become a National Historic Landmark. This news was featured in the Wall Street Journal and jump started the company's sales growth. By the 1990s, Kentucky's distilleries were becoming popular tourist attractions, soon to known as the Bourbon Trail.

Since the early 1800's, Kentucky's famous distilleries have crafted the world's finest bourbons, using secret recipes and a long-established process passed down from generation to generation.

Step into our country, and let it sweep you off your feet. We have every thing you need in Bourbon Country.

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Check out the great aquarium queue line, then jump on and take off on this fantastic new flying coaster. Watch in high quality.



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With pesky gang problems continuing to mushroom not only in major cities across the country, but seeping into small towns and communities also, what's the solution? Law enforcement? Education? Gang Prevention Programs?

Many of these attempts has at best helped to stifle gang growth and at worse fueled or covered up the cause, similar to placing a band-aid over a gunshot wound. But a growing number of African American activist, educators and even politicians are looking to Black history as another solution. Many African American educators including Dr. Ashwa Kwasi, lectures extensively to young African Americans on their history. Dr. Kwasi has also lectured in prisons across America to young gang members.

"It's harder for a blue rag wearing gang member to shoot a red rag wearing gang member when they know their sacred history," says the Dr. Kwasi, who host tours each year to Africa and ancient Egypt.

Unfortunately, most African American young people consider their history as beginning with slavery and ending with the Martin Luther King" I Have A Dream" speech. Still most schools ignore most of the contributions African Americans have contributed to this country beyond Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks.

When gang members discover Greeks and Romans traveled to Timbuktu to obtain not only physical treasures, but mental intellectual treasures. For example, books, ideas for schools of learning, medical techniques and other sources for healing, their attitudes change.

Gang members have put down their guns, stop hating one another and took control of their lives in productive ways by knowing their history. The most hard core gang members have wept like babies when they discover what their ancestors accomplished, went through and suffered so they could live.

A major push is on to include more Black history in public schools to foster more tolerance and understanding. Despite a more tolerant White America when it comes to racial issues, most White youth consider African Americans biggest contribution to America as sports and entertainment. The average American including most Blacks have no idea the contributions Blacks have made to America. From George Washington Carver, Charles Drew and Booker T. Washington alone you could count hundreds of products used world-wide today.

Many people don't know other inventions we use daily without thinking came from the mind of Black men. For example, the stop light,(Garret Morgan) the refrigerator (John Standard), the lawn mower (John Burr) and a host of others. With the gang problem spreading like a fungus in damp weather, no solution should go without notice. Every answer should have a voice - and Black history is that voice.

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St. Augustine, Florida is America's oldest city. It is also one of the most beautiful cities in the country, for a variety of reasons.

Its cobblestone streets. The story that sticks out every nook and cranny.

The rustic cabins and bed and breakfast, the rest under the old oak trees.

The spirits of interest, even the things in St. Augustine, Florida!

The oldest city

Like the "Ancient City" is known, St. Augustine, founded forty-two years before the EnglishColony of Jamestown, Virginia, and fifty to five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts - is the oldest permanent European settlement on the North American continent.

St. Augustine is located in North Florida between Jacksonville and Daytona Beach on the Atlantic Ocean. While Orlando is a bit like a trip, it is not too terribly far away.

What's the weather?

North Florida has been particularly mild temperatures in fall and spring. Wintersit can be a bit on the tangy side, with temperatures around freezing can surely happen. But usually sunny and the days on the cool side in winter.

The summers are something else - very hot and humid. How to organize your holiday, if you can, in such a way that you avoid the hottest and most humid periods (July and August). However, October, November, March and April are wonderful times to visit.

What you find in St. Augustine, Florida

There are a lot ofThings you do here in St. Augustine, as a visit to the fountain of youth, the Alligator Farm and Potter's Wax Museum. It's Ripley's Believe It or Not, where you can spend one or two hours.

If you use the beach, you will be St. Augustine's beautiful, wide sandy beaches to love, only to bask in the sun or made to play in the waves.

It is known as a very special event in October each year, St. Augustine Art Walk. October, if as the National Breast CancerAwareness Month, and the people participating in this walk to help raise money for research and fight breast cancer. The event has become known for its art raffle. Approximately 10 paintings will be raffled every year, with the proceeds going to various breast cancer foundations. After the walk held raffles and many other fund-lifter.

The Ghostly Side of Life

Then there is the St. Augustine Ghost Tours. These tours take a look into the city sometimes gruesome past, as it saysthat follow it restless spirits that certain places in the city.

Another interesting aspect is that specter is your guide to festive in a period costume, in the "spirit" of things, so to speak. The hikes are in the evenings when the weather is cooler and the atmosphere increasingly sinister place. Who knows what you'll see around the next corner?

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If all this sounds intriguing, you can add other figures can be found at the St. Augustine Floridalead.

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