The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-02
MEMORIAL
TO BOONE

Salisbury, NJ c., April 3O.-To the
memory of that famous pioneer, Dan
tel Boone, civiliZer of the North Ca
roiina and Kentucky wilderness, foun-
der Of Boonesville. KY, and central
figure and hero in the many boy
hood stories of Indian fighting and
hunting tales, memorials were cere-
moniously dedicated at Holmans Ford
near here today. These promise to
become a mecca for patriotic pill
grims.
OH the historic spot here Boone
spent nineteen years of his vigorous
young manhood, hunting and resisting
the skulking Redskin, patriotic North
Carolinians have erected on the exact
site OF the old homestead, a few hun
dred yards from the Yadkin River
new log cabin. a replica of the one
occupied by the intrepid hunter and
his family. Directly I'm front of the
simple building stands a handsome
shaft of native Rowan granite forming
an Indian arrow head fifteen feet
high and mounted upon a massive
base. OTnameating this is a bronze
tablet bearing the name Daniel
Boone and toe date of his residence
in North Carolina Both of these
memorials were dedicated with ap-
propriate ceremonies in which many
of the direct descendants of Boone,
and n score OF others who boast of
their relationship to the pioneer par
ticipated.
An Elaborate program of exercises
had been arranged for the event. J.
af Tan ia1
Boone Memorial Association, was
master of ceremonies. and Governor
William W. Kitchin, presided. The
chief addresses were delivered by
Judge Peter c Pritcnard. of the Tn
tied States Circuit Court of Appeals,
and representative Page of the sew
enth North Carolina district.
The picturesque cabin which was
dedicated today the relics of the great
Ttfoneer that IL contains and the
unique tablet designed to perpetrate
his memory. are fruits of the work
of the Daniel Boone Memorial Asso-
citation. Incorporated bv the General
Assembly cf North Carolina in 1909.
The Association was created cor
poratIon with power to hold lands,
erect suitable memorials, collect his
torical materials and such other
things as are necessary to perpetu-
ate the memory of the life of Daniel
Roone in North Carolina" The asso-
citation is composed of eleven men, of
whom J. P. McRary. of Lexington, is
chairman and IL is vested with the
power to nerpetuate itself.
The memorial association has only
begun it's work IL intends to make
OF this beautiful and picturesque spot
a mecca for pilgrims from every
where II IS about twelve miles from
Lexington in one direction and an
equal distance from Salisbury in the
other The very spirit of the mighty
hunter and hero seems to hover in the
air Itself and echoes from the distant
past can be heard IN the ripping wa
tiers of the Yadkin and in the signing
of tne winds in the trees which sur
round the old homestead. One may
iinger here until he can renew his
youth and his imagination again run
riot with visions of stealthy painted
Indians being slain by the unerring
rife OF the great Long Knife of Dan
lei Boone was known to them.
TIE first step toward the accom-
plishment of the work was the dona-
tion of five acres of land in Davidson
County, twelve miles from Lexington
embracing the site of the Boone
homestead and other points of inter
est made famous I'm the early history
of the hunter. Citizens of Davidson
county subscribed funds for the erec-
tiou OF O replica of the cabin in which
Borue lived. Citizens of Rowan
Ccunty (Which was formed from Dav-
idson County IN 1922 gave the nonu
nent, and the Daughters OF the A
merfcan Revolution of Salisbury con-
trihrtcd the bronze tablet for the
shaft
The memorial Is a one-story double.
roomed, log structure. with clay
chimney. and shelter an exact replica
OF toe homestead built by Boone
about 1755. Housed within II arr
raawneroaas ureciOus relics. such as