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Fort Boonesborough State Park, Boonesborough, KY

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Fort Boonesborough State Park

Kentucky state park preserving the site of a frontier fort founded by Daniel Boone's party in 1775.

Boonesborough, KY

About Fort Boonesborough State Park

The park preserves the site of Fort Boonesborough, a frontier fort that Daniel Boone and his companions established after crossing the Kentucky River in 1775. The settlement that grew there is considered the second oldest European-American settlement in Kentucky. During the American Revolutionary War it served as an important frontier outpost, and it lasted into the early 1800s before it was abandoned. The site is a National Historic Landmark administered as part of the state park and is among the best-preserved archaeological sites of early British colonial westward expansion. It lies in Madison County, reached from Kentucky Route 627.

  • #frontier history
  • #Daniel Boone
  • #Revolutionary War
  • #National Historic Landmark
  • #archaeology

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