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A statue of Daniel Boone stands on University Drive beside the Crabbe Library on the campus of East Kentucky University in Richmond. It was cast in 1967 from the 1892 sculpture by Enid Yandell. The first casting from the same sculpture stands in…

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.…

In 1914, Mary Boyce Temple placed nine cast iron markers across the northeast corner of Tennessee. In mid-August, probably Sunday, Aug. 16, she placed one in the grave yard at the Baptist Church in Butler. After World War II, the Tennessee Valley…

In 1914, Mary Boyce Temple placed nine cast iron markers along Daniel Boone's Trail in northeast Tennessee. This one along Elk Avenue was dedicated on August 15.

In 1914, Elizabeth Preston Gray, of Bristol, placed nine cast iron tablets along Daniel Boone's Trail. This marker was placed at the courthouse for Lee County in Jonesville. This was not the actual route followed by Boone, but Ms. Gray believed she…

In 1914, Mary Boyce Temple placed nine cast iron markers across northeast Tennessee to mark Daniel Boone's Trail. On August 15, she dedicated the marker in the town of Watauga with the interest of a large crowd gathering after a long day of…

In 1913, Lucy Patterson placed 13 cast iron markers in northwest North Carolina as the first part of the DAR's effort to mark Daniel Boone's Trail. The marker at Zionville was placed in October after a dedication ceremony in Boone for several in the…

In 1914, the Tennessee Society, Daughters of the American Revolution erected nine cast iron tablets to commemorate "Daniel Boone's Trail" though the northeast corner of that state. One marker was placed at Austin Springs along the Watauga River.

Duffield was known during the pioneer era as "Little Flat Lick" for a salt spring in the area. And from this open area, visitors can see a notch in Powell Mountain. This is Kane Gap, the pass through which Daniel Boone and the axemen crossed into the…

Fort Boonesborough State Park sits along the banks of the Kentucky River at the site where Daniel Boone and Richard Henderson established this new settlement in 1775, but not the first in Kentucky.