LYNCHBURG, Tenn. – This community of 6,336 is “small town USA” in the most graphic of terms, such as only one traffic light. It has been a sleepy little place dating back to the life and times of its most famous resident, the diminutive, Jack Daniels, who got the most fortuitous break a businessman could experience when he was virtually given a distillery by a preacher man.
In the beginning, one Dan Call took to the pulpit on Sunday but during the week, he labored at his still near Cave Spring Hollow, which supplies the limestone water that has made Jack Daniel’s what it is.