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DANIEL BOONE MARKER
DANIEL BOONE CAVE
EN PER IND ADE SAL
LS HEIERSEDGE
A H E PTER
TROFSIGAN REV TION
DANIEL BOONE
THE PIONEER SCOUT. BORN Nov. 3, 1734.
THIS MARKER IS INSCRIBED AS FOLLO WS:
DANIEL BOONE
THE WESTERN VIRGINIA
PIONEER 1788-1799
1789 LT. COL. OF KANAWHA MILITIA
AN ORGANIZER OF KANAWHA COUNTY,
1791 DELEGATE TO VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY
HIS CABIN WAS ACROSS THE RIVER
FROM CAVE IN CLIFF ABOVE.
HE HUNTED DEER AND MADE SALT
FROM A SPRING AT THE WATERS EDGE
ERECTED BY KANAWHA VALLEY CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1928
FOUNDED BOONESBOROUGH, KENTUCKY.
1774. SETTLED IN CHARLESTON AND KA-
NAWHA VALLEY. 1788. REPRESENTED KA.
NAWHA COUNTY IN THE VIRGINIA ASSEM-
BLY IN 1791. LATER EMBARKED ON THE
KANAWHA WITH HIS FAMILY ON FLATBOATS
AND MOVED TO MISS OURI, DIED AT THE
HOME OF HIS SON NATHAN IN SEPTEMBER,
A SHORT DISTANCE EAST OF CHARLES-
TON. NEAR THE DANIEL BOONE MARKER.
IS THE HISTORIC DANIEL BOONE CAVE,
THE GREAT HUNTER, EXPLORER AND
CONQUEROR OF THE "BLOODY GROUND
OF KENTUCKY WAS NEVER SO MUCK AT
HOME AS WHEN TREADING THE PATH-
LESS WILDERNESS. RIFLE IN HAND, IN
QUEST OF GAME OR THE PIONEER'S MOR-
TAL FOE THE WILY INDIAN. HE WAS ONE
OF THE FIVE OFFICIAL SCOUTS FOR FORT
CLENDENIN. LOCATED WHERE CHARLES.
TON NOW STANDS.
1820.
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE AD-
JOURNED AND ORDERED TWENTY DAYS OF
MOURNING OUT OF RESPECT TO HIS MEM
ORY.
COURTESY OF THE DANIEL BOONE HOTEL, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA
A VIA
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In beautiful West Virginia, "The Switzerland
of America," the attractive ten-story fireproof
Daniel Boone Hotel was erected by the Citizenry
of Charleston, W. Va., at a cost of over a mil-
lion and a quarter dollars, in memory of Daniel
Boone, famous Pioneer and Scout of nearly two
hundred years ago; located but a short distance
from the State Capitol; radio in every room;
every room an outside room with private bath;
rates moderate, a uniform high standard of
quality and service. You will like the homelike
atmosphere of the Daniel Boone.
NERE
MADE IN U.S.A
BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE. WIS
