Browse Items (39 total)

Founded as a national park in 1959, Cumberland Gap NHP protects and interprets the geological and cultural history of this natural pass through the barrier scarp of the Cumberland Mountains.

In March 1775, Daniel Boone departed the Long Island of the Holston, in today's Kingsport, TN, along with 30 axe men to begin marking a trail for others to follow into the Kentucky lands across the Cumberland Gap. He departed on this expedition under…

In August 2013, the good citizens of Barbourville erected a new statue of Daniel Boone at the Knox County Courthouse. Since 1948, this community has hosted the Daniel Boone Festival each October, the longest-running continuous festival in Kentucky.…

During the Cherokee War, a sub-conflict of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), settlers in the Carolina piedmont often “forted” for protection at Fort Dobbs. Daniel Boone’s family was among them.

Aside from the erroneous claims of Lyman…

In 1912, William Lewis Bryan, the first mayor of Boone, decided to erect a monument on the site of a hunting cabin in which Daniel Boone frequently hunted on the Blue Ridge Plateau. Although he did get some contributions for the project, he decided…

In 1999, Appalachian State University was celebrating its 150th anniversary. An alumnus from Kentucky presented the school with this bronze statue of Daniel Boone in camp with his hunting dogs. The sculpture was modeled and cast by Sherry Edwards,…

Daniel Boone arrived in North Carolina with his parents in 1752. He was 18. The Moravians migrated into the area the following year establishing Bethabara. When Daniel's younger brother, Israel, was ill with consumption (i.e., tuberculosis), Daniel …

In 1766, Daniel and Rebecca Boone moved their family from the Forks of the Yadkin to the Upper Yadkin River, building several cabins in the area. The cabin site along the Yadkin River at Holman's Ford lies beneath the surface of W. Kerr Scott…

Daniel Boone ascended the Blue Ridge Mountains along Elk Creek from his cabin at Beaver Creek. Grandview Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway affords visitors a view of the Elk Creek Valley.

A marker for Boone's Trace sits along the Blue Ridge Parkway at Mile Marker 285. This area is a gap through which Daniel Boone passed after ascending from Elk Creek valley. North of this marker is Cook's Gap, the general name for this area through…