Supplements: The John Adlum House is one of the oldest homes in Lycoming County, dating back to 1790. John Adlum is most famously known today as "The Father of American Viticulture." John Adlum was born in York, Pennsylvania. He was a soldier and then a major in the American Provisional Army during the American Revolutionary War. He would later be promoted to Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia. His surveying experience was sufficient for him to work in many state surveys. He was soon appointed to study navigation of the Susquehanna and Schuylkill rivers. He served as Lycoming County, Pennsylvania associate judge for three years. However his life-long dream and greatest service was to the cultivation and science of American grapes. He created a 200-acre farm and nursery at Georgetown, Washington, D.C. which was partly on the present day site of the Bureau of Standards. He was one of the first to urge the U.S. federal government to support research institutions. Later he grew an ex