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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…

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.

Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan Boone, the parents of America's pioneer hero, Daniel Boone, are buried in Mocksville, NC, at the Joppa Cemetery. This is actually a graveyard as it surrounded at one time the independent Joppa Church. Squire Boone…

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 …

Kingsport, Tennessee, is home to several sites of interest for Daniel Boone. The Netherland Inn developed along a later stage road and serves as the trailhead of the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail. At the Netherland Inn is a cabin, relocated to this…

Defeated Camp and Boone Trace remnant
A remnant of the Boone Trace runs through Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near the McHargue’s Water Mill. Nearby are the mass graves for 24 of the McNitt Party, pioneers killed by Shawnee warriors…

In Rockcastle County, US 25E runs through Livingston and is called the South Wilderness Road. In the center of town, a historical pedestal marker, placed by the Rockcastle Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution in 2012,, shares about the…

A replica of Martin's Station provides an impressive venue for historical interpretation and reenactments of life on the Virginia frontier in the late 18th century.

Joseph Martin was building the fort in 1775 when Daniel Boone and the axemen came…

Passage through the Clinch Mountains was through Moccasin Gap, a water gap, where Moccasin Creek flowed south into the North Fork Holston River. Daniel Boone and the axemen passed through this gap in March 1775.

Natural Tunnel State Park includes the railroad tunnel along Stock Creek which was enlarged from the "natural tunnel" that originally pierced through the mountain. Daniel Boone and the 30 axemen marking Boone's Trace in 1775 came up Stock Creek. Just…