Daniel Boone's Home

Boone Station is a place I thought would be a bigger deal than it was. That was a place Daniel Boone had moved to after Boonesboro. He founded Boonesboro. He was captured by Indians and made part of the tribe. He had the nickname Big Turtle (bad nickname). He was just playing with them though, pretending to be part of the tribe. He escaped after a few months to warn the fort about an upcoming attack. Some thought he was really was a traitor. Afterward they tried him for treason. He was found not guilty, but he was disgusted with them and moved to Boone Station with some other families.

Its listed as a historic park, but it isn't good. Its basically a field. It supposedly had trails, but it seemed to be more of a make your own trail deal. I was going to just look at it and not explore, but then I realized I had to. After spending probably a thousand hours at the creek behind our house pretending I was Daniel Boone and I was in Kentucky, how do I not roam through the area he actually roamed through. At my creek in Oregon I had an area built up that I thought of as Boonesboro. I had some toy guns, but I favored a stick I had found that looked like a Kentucky long rifle. I still remember that stick/gun fondly. I kind of wish I still had it. Its more than likely in a museum somewhere and I'll come across it some day.

About half a mile away was a nice looking church. It had a historical marker in front of it. Usually they aren't that interesting. This one said that church was actually founded in 1785 and was a log structure at that time. One of the founding members was Daniel Boone's brother. How cool.This is in the small town of Athens (pronounced with a long A, for some reason.) It has two big Christian Churches and one Church of Christ in a town of a few hundred. I thought it was weird there weren't more of those here, since they really had their start in at Cane Ridge about 20 miles away. I'm just more used to Southern Kentucky where it seems to be more Baptist and Methodist.

Anyway, Boone Station has not been cared for all that well. It had one overflowing trash can and some picnic tables that were so old and rickety, they might have been built by Daniel himself. Daniel ended up moving away because he was having a lot of trouble with people that thought he was cheating them in his surveying. I think Daniel was completely honest, but it is possible he wasn't a very good surveyor. He lived the rest of his life in Missouri. Kentucky loves Daniel, but by the end, Daniel wan't all that crazy about Kentucky.