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:''For the old name of the village in Santa Cruz County, see Freedom, California'' Whiskey Hill is a historic house in Taylorstown, Virginia.〔http://taylorstowncommunityassociation.blogspot.com〕 The house was added as a contributing property to the Taylorstown Historic District in 2004 when the district was expanded to include it and several neighboring structures. At the dawn of the 19th century, a small log cabin stood on a hill overlooking Catoctin Creek and Taylor Town, a tiny settlement in northwest Loudoun County, Virginia. The cabin, which has been expanded several times, was owned by distillers and their families into the 20th century, inspiring its modern name, Whiskey Hill.〔Frederick Bittle Kegley ''Kegley's Virginia Frontier: The Beginning of the Southwest'' Page 87 - 1938 "March 18, 1758, James Simpson from Robert Breckenridge, MS, 242 acres on south side of Buffalo Creek opposite Long Berch, top of Whiskey Hill. Au. D. Bk. 8, 8."〕 ==1700s== Archaeologists from Mount Vernon〔http://www.mountvernon.org/〕 visited Whiskey Hill in 2004 while conducting research for the reconstruction of George Washington's distillery; they confirmed that the house dates to the late 18th century. However, no signs of the distillery operation remain, though a spring on the property features stone walls consistent with a spring house. Relatives of previous residents report that they were not allowed into the bottom level of the spring house where whiskey was reportedly stored. In the early 1790s, the land where the cabin is located belonged to Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, and his brother, Henry Astley Bennett. Neither Englishman ever set foot on it. Their father had purchased the land from John Colvill, who once owned in the dominion. In 1792, the brothers used the Alexandria law firm Hooe and Little to sell to Joseph and Henry Taylor, two sons of Thomas Taylor. The elder Taylor owned on the east side of Catoctin Creek and built a mill there; both the area and the mill would take Thomas Taylor’s name. Henry bought out Joseph’s interest in the land five years later for the price of 77 pounds in the then-current money of Virginia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whiskey Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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