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LancePearson · 01-06-2013

Route 5 is where many of the colonial plantations are. You go past Sherwood Forest, President John Tyler's estate, then Berkely Plantation which was the Benjamin Harrison Estate then onto Shirley Plantation if you go past 106 which takes you south over the Benjamin Harrison Bridge over the James River back to route ten. Route 5 continues on to intersect directly with I 295 N. of the James River and easily takes you back to I 95 north and DC/Md. Just f.y.i. Berkely Plantation is the site of the actual first Thanksgiving and is where Bourbon Whiskey was invented as well, home of both Harrisons. They were used to grain liquor in England but had no grain here so they fermented corn into liquor. They didn't call it Bourbon at Berkely but when the first move West happened it was across the Blue Ridge Mountains into WV and Kentucky. One of the Kentucky towns decided to brew a lot of corn whiskey and enough that the liquor adopted the name: Bourbon, Ky. But...it was invented right here at Berkely plantation. You mount vernon guys know this but George Washington was a big brewer of liquor and they have started doing that again. Fairly soon now you can buy one of the bottles but I think they are going to be pretty expensive!

01-06-2013	#11
LancePearson Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Chester, Virginia Posts: 457	Re: LT5 Manufacturing/road driving at speed Videos Route 5 is where many of the colonial plantations are. You go past Sherwood Forest, President John Tyler's estate, then Berkely Plantation which was the Benjamin Harrison Estate then onto Shirley Plantation if you go past 106 which takes you south over the Benjamin Harrison Bridge over the James River back to route ten. Route 5 continues on to intersect directly with I 295 N. of the James River and easily takes you back to I 95 north and DC/Md. Just f.y.i. Berkely Plantation is the site of the actual first Thanksgiving and is where Bourbon Whiskey was invented as well, home of both Harrisons. They were used to grain liquor in England but had no grain here so they fermented corn into liquor. They didn't call it Bourbon at Berkely but when the first move West happened it was across the Blue Ridge Mountains into WV and Kentucky. One of the Kentucky towns decided to brew a lot of corn whiskey and enough that the liquor adopted the name: Bourbon, Ky. But...it was invented right here at Berkely plantation. You mount vernon guys know this but George Washington was a big brewer of liquor and they have started doing that again. Fairly soon now you can buy one of the bottles but I think they are going to be pretty expensive!