Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-09-29
HISTORICAL POINTS
ON BOONE Way
Col. Jim Maret Writes Interest
ly of Highway Which Passes
Thro' Richmond

philosopher, formerly OF Mt. Yer
non, writes of his Boone Way"
in the Lexington Leader Sunday
1t is routed through Richmond
He writes as follows:
The routing of Boone Way in
cludes many historical places, be-
ginning at Boone Park. the old
North Carolina home of the great
frontiers1nan. Daniel Boone, near
where Lexington now stands, fol
lowing Boone's trail. thence thru
Salisbury, Statesville. Blowing
Rock to Boone. Wataugua county
wherein lies Sycamore Shoals.
where the treaty took place be-
tween Colonel Richard Hender-
son and the Cherokees. where
bigger portion of Kentucky was
purchased for about three cents
per acre.
The highway has loop at
Blowing Rock one division goes
thru Boone and Mountain City to
Bristol. the other is routed to
Linville and Elizabethtown and
+ Bristol thence thru Gate City.
Natural Tunnel and Duffield and
Jonesville to Cumberland Gap,
+! the scene of Boone's first attack
from the Indians, when he with
immigrants was attempting to
enter Kentucky in 1773 Boone's
SON, James, was slain in the at
tack. The party retreated to
! Fort Blacknore, some seventy
miles up the Clinch valley, where
they remained until their memoir
able march into the Dark and
Bloody Ground" in 1775.
t The Boone Way route then
passes thru Middlesboro. Mt.
! Vernon and Richmond, to Boones
! boro on Kentucky river, where
Boone made the first permanent
settlement i'll the state of Ken
lucky. Winchester iss the termi-
nus of the Boonesboro division.
The Boone Way connects three
! transcontinental highways which
cross the country from ocean to
ocean, The Jackson Highway at
Lexington, The Midland Trail at
Winchester and Lexington and
reaching the Southern National
Highway at S1atesville. Lexing-
and Asheville, North Carolina.
With its loops and divisions,
Boone Highway reaches Danville.
! Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville
and other Kentucky. cities and
towns. Asheville, Biltmore and
other noted places in North Caro-
lima are found along the highway.
| The movement for putting this
. road on the map was originated
and successfully engineered by
the Commercial Club, consisting
of seventeen members in the lit
tie old town of Mt Vernon, KY,
beginning in January, 1918
Among the officers of the AS
ISOLATION are James Maret. Lex
ton. president; w H. Fish, Mt.
Vernon. secretary-terasurer; w.
O. Mcintyre. Danville. vice presi-
dent; State vice presidents are:
H. B. Warner, Lexington. Y. C..
and Henry Roberts, Bristol. Va.
Tenn, for both Virginia and Ten
nessee. Each county along the
entire route has a commissioner
whose duty is to render all possi-
bic assistance in pushing the
highway to all early completion.
Boone Way and Dixie Highway
use the same roadbed between
iCorbin and Richmond, Kentucky.
and is known as Dixie Boone.
Owing TO the situation brought
about thru the efforts Of Boone
Way people, that the routing of
Eastern Dixie Highway loop was
made possible at the big conven-
| ton held in Chattanooga in May.
1915.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution of the states OF North
/ Carolina. Virginia and Tennessee
!. have. placed markers over
/ "Boone's Trail (the route which
! Boone Way follows) from Boone
Cabin, N. C., to Boonesboro. Ken
lucky, a distance of 44O miles. A
of the markers bear the following
inscriptions 'Boones Trail 17z5.
Erected by the Daughters of
i the American Revolution (the
name of the state being placed
! before the d. A. r.
Boone Cabin is replica of the
! old home of the Boone family,
! some of the tintbers of the old
! building being used in the new.
The cabin is located on a fve-acre
tract set aside as memorial to
Daniel Boone.
The building is used as museum