High-value myth-correction lead, but do not draft as settled fact until the underlying statute or authoritative legal history is checked.
A sidebar separates a familiar bourbon origin story from the legal framework it may have compressed.
Stewart challenges the story that Governor Thomas Jefferson offered sixty acres for planting corn. Her account says the Virginia Land Law predated his governorship, involved four hundred acres, and accepted corn planting as one of several ways to prove settlement.
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