Business View Magazine | February 2018

244 245 shiners dotted that whole hill.Well, Boundary Oak distillery takes its water from the spring on that escarpment and will continue to do so. “And once I am able to reconstruct a 24 by 20 grist mill,we will start grinding corn and we will tie Boundary Oak Distillery to Saunders Springs to be what I think will be two very popular tourist attrac- tions.We haven’t built the gristmill yet; we’re going to start the fundraising for that in January at the Distillery, and I think we’ll raise the $115,000 that I need, and I’ll reconstruct what used to be there.” Weaver explains that the distillery and the spring will be the first part of a tourist loop that will take visitors to many other area attractions.“We have the largest veterans’ cemetery in Kentucky because we’re right next to Fort Knox,”he says.“Cemeteries are attractions, just like Arlington and Antietam, and people come to visit them.And as you continue the loop,we have a 911 Memorial from a piece of steel that came from the Twin Towers; we have a Gold Star Mothers’Memorial; we have a POW/MIAMe- morial. So, from Boundary Oak Distillery, you go to Saunders Springs, you go to the cemetery, from the cemetery, you go to an overpass that overlooks the Fort Knox gold vault. So, you stop and take a look at that.Then, from there you go to the Patton Mu- seum,which byApril or May of 2018, they will have finished over a million dollars worth of construction on it to have a display of all of General Patton’s par- aphernalia that we have; and they created an ROTC Hall of Fame in the same building. In the last five years,we moved the last remaining woodenWorld War II barracks to that campus. “So there are several attractions there that people www.redwingeco.com 1139 South Fourth Street Louisville, Kentucky 40203 Phone: (502) 625-3009 Fax: (502) 625-3077 PREFERRED VENDOR n Redwing Ecological Services www.redwingeco.com RADCLIFF, KENTUCKY will want to come to, and each one of themwill probably be a destination for somebody. So, you show them all of this, and then you come back to Boundary Oak Distillery and tell them all the other things that you can see if you spend the night here: There’s the Muhammad Ali Hall of Fame, the Lou- isville Slugger Museum, there’s the Swope Family Museum of Vintage Cars in Elizabethtown, there’s the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, there’s Mammoth Cave National Park, and there’s Abraham Lincoln’s hometown village–all of this is within 45 miles of where we’re located. So, as I look at what you can do with Radcliff, I think our niche is tourism. And that’s how I would put all that together.” So, next time you’re in Kentucky,make your way to the city of Radcliff in Hardin County.Take in all the sights and be sure not to miss the Boundary Oak Distillery.There’s a tumbler of fine Kentucky Bour- bon there,with your name on it.And,while you’re enjoying it, you might want to raise a toast to Mayor Mike.