MAKER’S MARK
Site — Loretto, Kentucky
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/makers-mark-loretto-kentucky/

The 1805 distillery where the red wax seals the bourbon.

Maker’s Mark is a site in Loretto, Kentucky. The 1805 distillery where the red wax seals the bourbon. The archive files it under industry and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told.

Maker's Mark is the bourbon that burned the recipe — the 1953 distillery where Bill Samuels Sr. torched the family formula and made a wheat bourbon instead of rye, the red-wax bottle that Margie designed and named. It's the original premium bourbon.
The distillery was the reinvention — the 'godawful whisky' the family had made for generations, the oven-tested recipe that chose wheat for smoothness, the bottle that Margie designed from her pewter collection. They hand-dip every bottle; they spell it 'whisky' without the e.
The distillery is still there — the Loretto site that's a National Historic Landmark, the tours that Margie invented, the bourbon that's still the family's. The file keeps Maker's Mark: the 1953 purchase, the burned recipe, and the distillery that made premium bourbon.
Maker's Mark is the archive's bourbon file — the wheat recipe, the red wax, and the distillery that invented the category.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Maker's Mark is the archive's bourbon file — the 1953 reinvention, the wax-dipped bottle, and the distillery that's still the Samuels'.
A distillery that burned its recipe keeps its wax — the file's suggestion being that Maker's Mark's hold is the reinvention: the wheat instead of rye, the Margie-designed bottle, and the bourbon that's still hand-dipped.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence in the warehouses. The reports at Maker’s Mark are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. The file stays open on it.
  source: Maker’s Mark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker%27s_Mark)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The 1805 site and the 1953 brand are documented. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Maker’s Mark' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Maker’s Mark — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker%27s_Mark

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