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Boons Camp is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The community is named after a camp used by Daniel Boone during the 1790s while he was hunting with the settlers from nearby Blockhouse Bottom. The community's original post office opened on May 16, 1876, with James Mollett as its postmaster.
In the 20th century, Boone was featured in numerous comic strips, radio programs, novels, and films, such as the 1936 film Daniel Boone [143] as well as the 1956 Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer shot in Mexico during the Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier craze of the time. Boone was the subject of a TV series that ran from 1964 to 1970.
The trail is primarily in the Daniel Boone National Forest, but also takes visitors through the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, Natural Bridge State Resort Park, two large recreation lakes (Cave Run Lake and Laurel Lake), and many wildlife management areas. All but the southernmost 45 miles ...
Daniel Boone was from Pennsylvania and migrated south with his family along this road. From an early age, Boone was one of the longhunters [3] who hunted and trapped among the Native American nations along the western frontiers of Virginia, so-called because of the long time they spent away from home on hunts in the wilderness. Boone would ...
Fort Boonesborough was a frontier fort in Kentucky, founded by Daniel Boone and his men following their crossing of the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775. The settlement they founded, known as Boonesborough, Kentucky, is Kentucky's second oldest European-American settlement.
Boone's Station, initially known as Boone's New Station to distinguish it from the fort which is now known as Boonesborough, was the home of Daniel Boone, the famed frontiersman, from 1779 [1] until 1782. Athens at the time was named "Cross Plains" [2] and Boone's son Israel established the fort nearby in 1776.
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Pilot Knob State Nature Preserve is located in Powell County, [1] Kentucky, USA.It is a 1,257.93 acre nature preserve in Eastern Kentucky. [2]A 730-foot (220 m) outcrop, [1] known as Pilot Knob, is believed to be the place where legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone and his companion John Finley first looked out over the area in 1769.