Today In History (November 2 1734) Daniel Boone

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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1734: American explorer Daniel Boone is born in Berks County, near Reading, Pennsylvania, the sixth of eleven children. He would become most famous for creating the Wilderness Road through the Appalachian mountains, and for his settlement and exploration of Kentucky. Hundreds of thousands of settlers followed his route into these lands during the 18th century. He would also marry and become a father of ten White children.

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Boone was an embodiment of the Aryan spirit. One of my absolute favorite pieces of artwork is this mural which can be found at the Cumberland Gap National Park visitor's center.

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Boone was an embodiment of the Aryan spirit. One of my absolute favorite pieces of artwork is this mural which can be found at the Cumberland Gap National Park visitor's center.46e0f719fd9fd12e96eac0811bbc7fbb.jpg

Lovely painting, WM1.

Boone, NC, named after Daniel is less than 25 miles from Mountain City, TN.

Boone was a frequent traveler through what is now Johnson County, Tennessee, home of our National Alliance National Office.

Highway marker in Johnson County

Daniel Boone is a familiar name to many Americans. It is a very familiar name to folks who live in Johnson County or the surrounding area. Boone's trek through the wilderness of what is now Johnson County, Tennessee is one of adventure and hardship. Historians say Boone was one of the earliest men to come through what is now Johnson County. Boone’s family settled in the Yadkin Valley in 1751. It was from there that Boone launched his various trips into Kentucky where he established Boonesborough.
Boone is said to have come through what is now Boone and Zionville, North Carolina and what is now Trade and Shouns Crossroads in Tennessee. Coming to Shouns, he turned west through Butler and communities west. At other times he turned east through what is now Mountain City and Laurel Bloomery in Tennessee and Damascus, Virginia and on through Wolf Hills (present day Abingdon, Virginia) toward the Cumberland Gap.
Boone and a group of men blazed a trail through Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. A gap or low route was an important feature in those days when walking or horseback was normal modes of travel. Also Cumberland Gap was the converging point for two major pioneering routes: The Wilderness Road and The Tennessee Road.