[3] In February 1988, it relocated to Spotsylvania County, near Fredericksburg, into a former FMC Corp. cellophane plant at One Bowman Drive, where operation continues as a microdistillery owned by the Sazerac Company.

[4] The A. Smith Bowman distillery business was purchased in 2003 by the Sazerac Company,[5] which is a large privately owned liquor producer with headquarters in New Orleans.

[8] In particular, it also produces bourbon brands named after the Bowman family of Virginia/Kentucky pioneers, including:[4] The building in which the distillery originally operated was constructed circa 1892 under the guidance of Dr. C.A.

For a time, the building then became a single-family residence and general store, until purchased by Abram Smith Bowman in 1927 as part of a 4,000-acre parcel called Sunset Hills.

Bowman would later make an additional 3,240-acre purchase of what was known as the Dunn Tract in 1947 – creating the largest privately owned property in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, which would remain so until nearly all of the land was sold to a real estate company in 1960.