The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-30
THE MEMORY OF
DANIEL BOONE
Site Of North Carolina Cabin
Will be a Mecca for
Admirers

Salisbury, N. c., April 0.-To the
memory Of that famous pioneer, DAN
lei Boone. civilizer, of the North Car
olina and Kentucky wilderness, found
er OF Bonnesborough, KY, and CEN
tral figure and hero in the many boy
hood stories of Indian fighting and
hunting tales. memorials were cere-
moniously dedicated at Holmanjs
Ford, near here, today. These promise
to become mecca for patriotic pill
grims.
On the historic spot where Boone
spent nineteen years of his vigorous
young manhood, hunting and resisting
the skulking redskin, patriotic North
Carolinians have erected on the ex-
act site of the old homestead, few
hundred yards from the Yadkin river,
new log cabin, replica of the one
occupied by the intrepid hunter and
his family. Directly in front of the
simple building stands a handsome
shaft of native Rowan granite form
ing an Indian arrow head fifteen feet
high and mounted upon a massive
base. Ornamenting this is a bronze
tablet bearing the name of Daniel
Boone and the dates of his residence
in North Carolina. Both of these me-
MORALS were dedicated with appro-
pirate ceremonies in which many of
the direct descendants of Boone, and
score of others who boast of their
relationship to the pioneer, particle
pated.
An elaborate program of exercises
had been arranged for the event. j.
r. McRary, president of the Daniel
Boone Memorial association, was mas
ter of ceremonies, and Governor Will
liam w. Kitchin, presided. The chief
addresses were delivered by Judge
Jeter C. Pritchard of the United States
circuit court of appeals, and Repre-
sentative Page of the Seventh North
Carolina district.
The picturesque cabin which was
dedicated today, the relics of the great
pioneer that it contains and the un-
ique tablet designed to perpetuate
his memory, are fruits of the work
of the Daniel Boone Memorial asso-
citation, incorporated by the general
assembly of North Carolina in 1909.
The association was created a cor
poration, with power to hold lands,
erect suitable memorials collect his
lOllSdl MoCClA1Ao Ouu ooSh OthSA
things as are necessary to perpetuate
the memory of the life of Daniel
Boone in North Carolina" The asso-
citation is composed of eleven men, of
whom ]. R. McRary of Lexington Is
chairman, and it is vested with the
power to perpetuate itself.
A Boone Mecca.
The memorial association has only
begun it's work. 1t intends to make
of this beautiful and picturesque spot
a mecca for pilgrims from everywhere.
1t is about twelve miles from Lexing-
ton in one direction and all equal dis
tance 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
ters of the Yadkin and in the signing
of the winds in the trees which sur
round the old homestead. One may
linger here until he can renew his
youth and his imagination again run
riot with visions of stealthy painted
Indians being slain by the unerring
rifle of the Great Long Knife as DAN
i iel Boone was known to them.
The first step toward the accom-
piishment Of the work was the dona-