History
Boone Station, on Boone’s Creek near Athens east of Lexington, preserves the site of Boone’s New Station, a frontier settlement tied to Daniel Boone in the Revolutionary War era. The community grew around a fort established in 1776 by Boone’s son Israel, then known as Cross Plains, and Daniel Boone lived there from 1779 to 1782 as it reached perhaps 15 to 20 families. Built for defense like other Kentucky stations, it stood amid real frontier dangers, including the deaths of Edward Boone, Israel Boone, and Thomas Boone’s nephew’s cousin?
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Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky · United States
