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The Fort Is Abandoned
Settlers built Fort Boonesborough as a refuge in time of trouble. When the threat of Indian attack declined, people abandoned the fort. Richard Henderson's dream of Boonesborough as his colony's capital died when the . . . — — Map (db m242011) HM
Opening the Wilderness
Land speculator Richard Henderson's Transylvania
Company had obtained thousands of acres from the
Cherokee-all of the land bounded by the Kentucky,
Cumberland, and Ohio rivers. In 1775, few non-Indians
had ventured . . . — — Map (db m210659) HM
Built for Defense
Daniel Boone and his trail crew arrived at the beginning
of April 1775 and began building a fort. They had finished
several small, rough cabins when Richard Henderson and
forty men arrived a few weeks later. Henderson . . . — — Map (db m210660) HM
No Trace Remained
Built for defense, Fort Boonesborough fell into disuse after the
threat posed by the British and their Indian allies vanished. The
log walls and cabins decayed. The rock in the chimneys was
scavenged for use elsewhere. . . . — — Map (db m210658) HM
In pious and eternal commemoration
of
The First Christian Service
in Kentucky
attended by the pioneer founders
of Transylvania
and conducted by the
Reverend John Lythe
of the
Church of England
on this hallowed spot May 28, 1775.
Erected . . . — — Map (db m210661) HM
The War Begins
Less than three weeks after Daniel Boone arrived here in
April 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord ignited the
American Revolution. For two years an uneasy peace held
on the frontier but in early 1777 the British and . . . — — Map (db m210655) HM
