Mahotea Boone Trail

Mahotea Boone Trail is the name now given to a site and street believed to have been a campground and burial site for the last bands of Native Americans living in and around Tarrant and Denton Counties. In the 1970s, this 30-acre tract was developed and named by Bill Boone. Mahotea, originally spelled without the letter e, was his wife Thelma's middle name, given in honor of her grandmother's childhood friend, a Chickasaw Native American. Bill Boone's fifth great-grandfather was Israel Boone, the older brother of Daniel Boone. When Israel died at age 30, his son Jesse Boone was raised by Daniel and Rebecca Boone in Kentucky and later in Missouri. After Daniel's death in 1820, several of his grandchildren and family members moved from Missouri to Texas in the same wagon that carried Daniel to his grave. Since that time, generations of Boones have lived in the Roanoke and Keller area. Bill and Thelma Boone built a log home along Mahotea Boone Trail in 1983.

Westlake, Texas · United States