Distillery
Buffalo Trace
Long before Buffalo Trace existed by that name, settlers arrived at Leestown on the banks of the Kentucky River in 1775. They followed paths worn into the ground by migrating buffalo, and those ancient trails eventually gave the distillery its name. Distilling continued on this ground for two centuries under several names. The site passed from O.F.C. to George T. Stagg before settling on Buffalo Trace in 1999, after purchase by the family-owned Sazerac Company. During Prohibition it stayed running, one of only a handful of Kentucky distilleries licensed to make whisky for medicinal purposes. That unbroken history earned it a rare mark. In 2013 the United States Department of the Interior named it a National Historic Landmark. That puts it alongside sites like the Alamo, one of only about 2,577 landmarks nationwide.
