Documentary evidence favors Bourbon County over Bourbon Street as bourbon’s namesake

Surviving nineteenth-century newspaper evidence supports Bourbon County as the source of the whiskey name and does not support the later Bourbon Street origin story.

Verified against Hannush’s complete chapter and rendered pages. The 1821, 1826, and 1842 newspaper items remain secondary-source leads until independently opened.

Earliest surviving print is a documentary boundary, not proof of the exact moment or mechanism of naming.

The source compares early printed uses in Kentucky, Natchez, and New Orleans and reports no pre-Civil War “Bourbon Street whiskey” evidence.

Supported/Moderate. The claim rejects Bourbon Street more strongly than it proves every step of the Bourbon County naming mechanism.