The 19-county district is home to Kentucky's most famous lifestyle symbols, from the thoroughbred farms that produce Kentucky Derby champions to rolling tobacco fields and the whiskey that drew its name from Bourbon County.

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His newly restored distillery at Mount Vernon (you can watch the History Channel video George Washington's Liquid Gold) is now touted as "The Gateway to the American Whiskey Trail, " a trip that winds mostly through the historic, large distilleries of Kentucky and Tennessee.

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