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Twenty miles north of Cumberland Gap, the Boone Trace crossed the Cumberland River at a shallow ford at today's Pineville. The Cumberland Ford is about 500 feet north (downstream) of the bridge for Kentucky Hwy 66.

The Thomas Walker Narrows…

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.

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.

Occupying the former 1902 Courthouse for Wilkes County, the Wilkes Heritage Museum interprets centuries of history for this part of the Yadkin River valley, including Daniel Boone, the backcountry patriots on their way to the Battle of Kings…

Salem was established by Moravian settlers in 1766 after 13 years living in Bethabara and seven years in Bethania. Those communities were farming communities and then continued as such. Salem was to become a community of artisans and craftsmen and…

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 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, 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, 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 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…