Lynchburg, Tennessee
Home of the world-famous Jack Daniel’s distillery
The Moore County courthouse anchors Lynchburg’s square. Nearby is the distillery campus, where a bronze statue of Jack Daniel (on the rocks) stands in front of Cave Springs, source of 800 gallons of water per minute for whiskey making. A tour takes you to see the charcoal works, the grain mill, the distilling process and, at right, a barrel house and Jack’s preserved office.
Good Getaways Story and photos by David Moore
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ou don’t have to be a whiskey drinker to enjoy a getaway to Lynchburg, Tennessee, and the Jack Daniel’s distillery. And you don’t have to – but you certainly can – make it an overnight stay. It’s a pleasant drive from Marshall County to the distillery in Lynchburg, a town of some 48
6,000 folks in the scenic, rolling hills of southcentral Tennessee. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the distillery is located on part of a 1,700-acre campus scattered with 78 barrel houses. Jack Daniel’s 700 or so workers – many of them multi-generational employees – ship 119 million bottles of the famous whiskey annually to over 170 countries around the globe. While its home of Moore County is dry, you
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