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Lynchburg is a city in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is governed by a consolidated city-county government unit whose boundaries coincide with those of Moore County. Lynchburg is best known as the location of the Jack Daniel's distillery, whose famous whiskey is... marketed world-wide as the product of a city with only one traffic light. Despite the operational distillery, Lynchburg's home county of Moore is a dry county. The population was 5,740 at the 2000 census. Lynchburg is part of the Tullahoma, Tennessee Micropolitan Statistical Area. Lynchburg is located at 35°17′3″N 86°21′27″W / 35.28417°N 86.3575°W / 35.28417; -86.3575. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 130.4 square miles , of which, 129.2 square miles of it is land and 1.2 square miles of it is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 5,740 people, 2,211 households, and 1,686 families residing in Lynchburg-Moore County. The population density was 44.4 people per square mile . There were 2,515 housing units at an average density of 19.5 per square mile . The racial makeup was 95.
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The Brown-Forman Corporation is one of the largest American-owned companies in the spirits and wine business. Some well-known brands of the corporation include Jack Daniel's, Southern Comfort, Finlandia Vodka, Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Canadian Mist, Early Times, Old Forester, and Korbel champagne. The company was founded in 1870 by George Garvin Brown, a young pharmaceuticals salesman in Louisville, who had the then-novel idea of selling... top-grade whiskey in sealed glass bottles. Since then, it has grown into a company that in fiscal 2006 had sales of $2.4 billion. The Brown family controls more than 70% of the voting shares. Brown Forman has two classes of common stock, both of which are traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. The Class A shares carry voting privileges and are thinly traded due to control by the Brown family while the Class B shares are Non-voting stock. In 2005, the company sold its Lenox division , which had been acquired in 1983, to Department 56 for $USD 160 million.
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