1880

Henry McKenna opens an office on Louisville’s Market Street to sell his whiskey, but was so successful, had to purchase “The Old Blue House” a year later. Later on he had to move his Lexington offices to Fourth Street near Main, a region that would later be dubbed “Distillery Row“. By 1890’s his product, Old Line Sour Mash Whiskey, was being sold all over the United States. The brand name would later be sold to Heaven Hill Distillery in the early 1980’s. <a href=”http://pre-prowhiskeymen.blogspot.com/2013/07/henry-mckenna-irelands-gift-to-american.html” target=”_blank”>More info</a>.