The Buffalo Trace Distillery claims to be the oldest continuously operating distillery in the United States. Distilling there started before 1773 according to records.
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Michael Dwayne Jones
1960
The first factory in America was built in 1790, by Samuel Slater, a cotton spinner's apprentice who left England the year before with the secrets of textile machinery, he built the factory from memory to produce spindles of yarn.
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America's first steamboat was built by John Fitch when Fitch tried to open his own ferry business he failed. But Robert Fulton took up the idea and started his own business and succeeded.