From the founding of Jamestown to the time of Washington and Jefferson, every plantation owner made cider, drank cider, and bragged about his cider.
Fruit
Nelson County Crab
NELSON COUNTY CRAB is another candidate in orchardist Tom Burford's opinion for the lost Taliaferro (Thomas Jefferson's favorite cider apple). This is a precocious tree, early blooming. Appears promising for cider.