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Daniel Boone Homestead |
Birdsboro |
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Historic Daniel Boone Home |
Defiance |
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| 1759/00/00 |
After Cherokee attacks in the Catawba and Yadkin river valleys, Daniel Boone moves his family more than 200 miles to Steven. Boone works as a teamster hauling tobacco from Salubria and other farms to market in Fredericksburg by way of Germanna Ford. |
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Stevensburg, VA |
Virginia |
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| 1759/00/00 |
After Cherokee attacks in the Catawba and Yadkin river valleys, Daniel Boone moves his family more than 200 miles to Steven. Boone works as a teamster hauling tobacco from Salubria and other farms to market in Fredericksburg by way of Germanna Ford. |
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Salubria |
Stevensburg, VA |
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| 1775/00/00 |
Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone negotiate the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, in which Henderson's Transylvania Company buys large parts of modern Kentucky and Tennessee from the Cherokee. |
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Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area |
Elizabethton |
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| 1775/00/00 |
Daniel Boone begins cutting the Wilderness Road, which will extend through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. |
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Boatyard Historic District (Kingsport, TN) |
Kingsport, TN |
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| 1775/04/01 |
Fort Boonesborough is established by Daniel Boone and his men after their crossing of the Kentucky River in April 1775. |
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Fort Boonesborough Site |
Fort Boonesborough State Park |
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| 1775/04/02 |
Daneil Boone begins the erection of a stockaded fort on the Kentucky River intended to become the capital of the Colony of Transylvania. |
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Fort Boonesborough Site |
Fort Boonesborough State Park |
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| 1776/07/15 |
Daniel Boone leads a rescue party to find Jemima, Betsy and Fanny. "Next morning by daylight we were on the track, and found they had prevented our following them by walking some distance apart through the thickest canes they could find." |
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Abduction of Jemima Boone and the Callaway Girls |
| 1776/07/17 |
Jemima Boone and Betsy and Fanny Callaway are rescued from Indian kidnappers: Four of us fired, and all of us rushed on them, which prevented them from carrying away anything, except one shot-gun without ammunition. |
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Abduction of Jemima Boone and the Callaway Girls |
| 1781/06/04 |
Tarleton's Dragoons capture Virginia assemblyman Daniel Boone and a companion as they ride toward Staunton VA |
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Jack Jouett's Midnight Ride |
| 1781/06/07 |
Daniel Boone is paroled and spends the evening at Watson's Ordinary prior to rejoining the Assembly in Staunton. |
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Boyd Tavern |
Keswick |
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Jack Jouett's Midnight Ride |
| 1790/00/00 |
Squire and Daniel Boone find caverns near Buck Creek, just north of the Ohio River. |
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Squire Boone Caverns |
Mauckport |
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| 1792/04/00 |
Daniel Boone gives a deposition in the Tavern (courthouse was under construction) in a land case involved his friend, Captain James Harrod. |
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Old Talbott Tavern |
Bardstown, KY |
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| 1793/00/00 |
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Faith |
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Old Providence Baptist Church, Winchester |
Winchester |
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| 1813/04/00 |
After the death of his wife Rebecca, Danien Boone spends a great deal of time with his daughter Jemima and her husband, Flanders Callaway, so that he can be near Rebecca's grave. |
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Flanders Callaway House |
Defiance |
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| 1820/09/21 |
Daniel Boone dies at age 85 at the Boone Home in Defiance, Missouri, United States. Mr Boone was buried at Old Bryan Farm Cemetery in Marthasville, Missouri. |
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Historic Daniel Boone Home |
Defiance |
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| 1820/09/23 |
Daniel Boone's funeral is held in the Callaway's barn because the house is too small for the crowd of mourners. He was buried next to his wife at Old Bryan Farm Cemetery. The Daniel Boone Burial Site and Monument is located on a hill west of the BMV. |
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Boone Monuments Marthasville |
Marthasville |
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| 1845/00/00 |
The remains of Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca Ann Bryan Boone are moved to Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. |
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Frankfort Cemetery and Chapel |
Frankfort |
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