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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…

The Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association built a replica blockhouse around which to interpret life on the frontier of southwest Virginia during the late 18th century. The structure helps recall the Anderson Blockhouse along the Holston River at…

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…

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.

In 1914, the Daughters of the American Revolution placed a marker for "Daniel Boone Trail" at the Scott County Courthouse. Elizabeth Preston Gray of Bristol, VA, was in charge of the project for the Virginia Society, NSDAR. She was a member of the…

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…

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…

The history of Fort Watauga and the overmountain settlement around Sycamore Shoals is interpreted today at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, TN.

The complex includes a replica of Fort Watauga, a visitor center with new exhibits…

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…

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.