Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-05-01
TEN THOUSAND ARE
PRESENT AT UNWILLING
Association Chartered by the Tar
Heel State Takes Charge OF Ills
toric Site and Appropriate Memo
rails Are Erected-Ceremon Are
Held on Date Of Anniversary.

SALISBUKl N. u, APih ~.
More than ten thousand patrlo'lc
North Carolinians gathered TO-DAY al
Eoone's Ford, Boone township, Dawn
son county. sequestered noon
twelve miles from civilization, to pay
tribute TO the memory OF Dahiel
Boone pioneer hunter and civillzer
of the wilderness. On the exact
spot where Boone lived for nineteen
years of his vigorous young man,
hood. a replica of his log CABIN anu
handsome native granite SHAFT,
we're unveiled with elaborate cere-
monies.
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. lie"
hundred wards from the Yadkin rNer'
a new log cabin, a replica of the one
occupied by the intrepid hunter and
his family. Directly in front OF the
simple building stands handsome
cbaft of native Rowan granite iorm-
ing an Indian arrow head fifteen teet
high, and mounted upon MASSIVE
base. Ornamenting this is bronze
tablet bearing the name Daniel Boone
and the date of his residence in North
Carolina. Both of these MEMORIALS
were dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies in which many of the direct
descendants cf Boone, and a score OF
others VINO boast of their relationship
to the pioneer; participated.
An Elaborate Program.
An elaborate program of exercises
had been arranged for the event. J.
r. McRary, president OF the Danlei
Boone Memorial ASS citation, was
master of ceremonies, and Governor
William w. Kitchin, presided. The
chief addresses were delivered by
Judge Letter c. Pritchard, of the Unit
cd states Circuit Court of Appeals.
end Representative Page. Of the
Seventh North Carolina district
The picturesque cabin which was
dedicated today: the relics OF the
great pioneer that il contains. and the
unique tablet designed TO perpetuate
his memory, are fruits of the Work
Of The Daniel Boone Memorial AS
sociation. incorporated by the general
assembly of North Carolina in 1909
The association was created a corpo-
ration. with power to hold lands,
erect suitable memorials, collect his
torical materials and such other
things as are necessary to perpetua'e
the memory of the life Of Daniel
Boone in Ncrth Carolina" The asso-
citation is composed Of eleven men,
of whom J. r. McRary. of Lexington
is chairman. and it is vested with the
power to perpetuate itself.
Work Only Begun
The memorial association has only
bey,n its werk II 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 90 hover IN
the air itsel; and echoes from the
distant past can be heard in the-rip-
ping waters e the 1adkir and the
signing Of the winds in the trees
which surround the old homestead
One may linger here until he can re-
new his youth and his imagination
again run rot with visions Of steaithy
painted Indians being slain by the
sneerlng rife or the great Long knife
as Daniel Boone was known TO them
The first step toward the accom-
plishment 4 the work was the do31-
ton % Eve acres Of land in David
son county. twelve miles from Lexing-
ton. embracing the site Of the Boone
homestead and other points Of inter
est made famcus In the early history
% the hunter. Citizens Of Davidson
county subscribed funds FOR the cree
ton Of a replica OF the cabin IN
which Boone lived. Citizens Of Rowan
county (which was formed from Ia
vidscn county in 1922. gave the mn
ument. and the Daughters Of the
American Revolution Of salisbury con
tribufed the bronze tablet for the
shaft.
Description Of Cabin.
The memorial - one-story. double
roomed. i-g structure. with chimney
and shelter. &C exac; replica Of the