"1769 was 240 years ago . . . unless I slept a lot longer than I thought last night! That’s right George Washington was president. We’re America’s oldest flour company. Mary @ KAF" WRONG WRONG WRONG !! George Washington was 37 in 1769--there was another 20 years until he became President in 1789. Our country was not yet even that; 1769 would have put it in the time that Washington began to pull himself out of debt in the mid 1760s by diversifying his previously tobacco-centric business interests into other ventures and paying more attention to his affairs. In 1766, he started switching Mount Vernon's primary cash crop away from tobacco to wheat (here is the King Arthur Flour connection !), a crop that could be processed and then sold in various forms in the colonies, and further diversified operations to include flour milling, fishing, horse breeding, spinning, weaving and (in the 1790s) whiskey production. Our country was not even recognized by any other country until 1783 & then once the Constitution was at last ratified in 1788, this set the platform for Washington as the first President in 1789. Thanks for the history lesson Patrick! All said and done, it still is pretty awesome we’re America’s oldest flour company. Washington in office or not! ~Jessica

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