Bardstown is 25 minutes from our venue and close to our heart. It is the small town where our Grams (Ginger) was raised and where she met our PaPaw (Tony).We still have family living there and family living in New Haven (Montgomerys and Wolfs).
It has much history. It is the second oldest city in Kentucky. If you have time, please tour a bit!
There are shops, shows, golf, a dinner train, distillery tours, unique staying options and more to check into.
It is Bourbon Capital of the WORLD! If your schedule allows, you may want to start your visit the weekend before the wedding and experience the Bourbon Festival! There is a link here as well as a few tourist attractions.
The train offers multiple excursion types including lunch, dinner, bourbon, and murder mystery. There is even a princess tea party ride for the kids!
You will need to book ahead of time because this is a popular activity!
* The bride requests a murder mystery excursion date with the groom ASAP *
Enjoy a sneak peak of the wedding property and sample some drinks!
Open for Tours & Tastings
Reservations recommended
Mon - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm (last tour at 4 p.m)
Sunday 11 am - 3 pm (last tour at 2 p.m.)
Tasting Room Bar:
Thurs - Sat 5 p.m.- 11 p.m.
Named for Americas first composer Stephen Fosters sentimental ballad, My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!, the Federal style mansion commissioned by John Rowan Sr. was completed in the year 1818 and was the centerpiece of a 1,300 acre plantation.
Mon. - Sun. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tours are given on the hour; last tour is at 4 p.m.
502-348-3502
The Kentucky Railway Museum owes its beginning to a small number of rail enthusiasts who formed a local chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1948. In the early 1950s, the Chapter asked the Louisville and Nashville Railroad for the donation of a steam locomotive to form the nucleus of a railway museum.
Tuesday-Friday 9 am to 4:30 pm, Saturday 11 am to 4:30 pm, and Sunday 12-4:30 pm. Last museum admission is 4:00 PM
Preservation Distillery is Bardstown and Nelson County’s first official craft bourbon operation, and its only pot still distillery, specializing in very small batch bourbon with unique releases. Producing intensely flavored pot distilled whiskey in an old tobacco barn along the Bourbon Trail, this small historic Kentucky farm bourbon experience sits on a 200-foot-thick bed of solid limestone above a pristine reservoir, ideal for producing great Kentucky Bourbon.
Tours offered everyday!
Open Mon. 10am - 5pm
Tues. - Fri. 10am - 5:30pm
Sun. 10am - 4pm