The Rum Story

The Rum Story is a visitor attraction and museum in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England.

The Rum Story was started with United Kingdom National Lottery funding from the Millennium Commission and opened in May 2000.

[2] It was voted Cumbria Tourism's "Small Visitor Attraction" in 2007.

[3] Brothers Henry and Robert Jefferson had joint interests in two estates in Antigua leased from Rear Admiral Sir William Ogilvy, father of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet.

[4] These were York's Estate (which had 146 enslaved people)[5] and the New Division Estate (309 enslaved people)[6] There is also a Margarett Jefferson listed in connection with the Bahamas, and a Thomas Jefferson in Jamaica.