Our Travel Journal: Bourbon Trail: Frankfort, Distilleries

We started today with another pleasant drive, this time to the Capitol City of Frankfort. With a total population of around 28,000 people which makes Frankfort smaller than our hometown by about 13,000. Aside from being one of the smaller State Capitols that we have visited, it is also one of the prettiest. The Capitol Building looks magnificent even though the dome was surrounded by scaffolding while being refurbished. The building itself is in a beautiful wooded setting.

Capitol Building

Huge Hanging Planters

More Landscaping

The Governor's Mansion

Daniel Boone spent much of his life in Kentucky. He did eventually move on to Missouri, where he died at the age of 85. That is when his life really got exciting. He was buried right after death outside the home of his son. As time passed, Kentucky felt that they had better claim to his (and Rebecca's) bones. Finally, after a twenty-five year fight, Kentucky gained the right to remove their bodies and re-intere them in Kentucky. So in 1845 he and Rebecca were buried in Frankfort Cemetery, lying now under an impressive monument at a site that looks across the Kentucky River valley. The story is over. There are those in Missouri who claim that the Kentuckians took the wrong earthly remains. So what we
know is that there is a great historical monument sitting atop the graves of two people who were once buried in Missouri. Daniel Boone, a man of few words, has remained silent on the subject.

We visited two distilleries today. Buffalo Trace and Glenn's Creek. The premises of these distilleries could not be more different. Buffalo Trace is on track to be the largest Bourbon producing operation in the world. It is designed to be both a producer of bourbon and an important stop for bourbon tourists. Glenn's Creek is a much smaller operation with tourism as an afterthought. Both produce very good bourbons.