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Bourbon News & Notes: Freddie’s Old Fashioned Soda helps the historic Green Hill Cemetery in Frankfort
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 20 August 2021, by Susan Reigler
Restoration of Historic Green Hill Cemetery in Frankfort Gets a Boost from Freddie’s Old Fashioned Soda
If you are very lucky, you’ll have had Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame member Freddie Johnson as your tour guide when you visited Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort. Johnson is the third generation of his family to work at the National Historic Landmark and a treasure-trove of bourbon history and knowledge.
His passion for Kentucky history extends well beyond bourbon though. He has taken on the very special mission of restoring and preserving Green Hill Cemetery in Frankfort. Established in 1865, it has Kentucky’s only monument honoring the nearly 25,000 Black Kentuckians who served in the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War and is the final resting place of many of them, as well as of other Black Kentuckians and Franklin County’s...Read more