Asbury Seminary, Fort Boonesboro and Daniel Boone Gravesite - Wilmore, Richmond and Frankfurt, KY - Day 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 9 was a whirlwind. We began with a tour of Asbury Seminary with our friends Tim and Julie Tennant after a wonderful stay at their Rose Hill presidential house. The statue is of John Wesley, the much loved founder of Methodism, writer of hymns with his brother Charles, and frontier revivalist preacher. 

 

Amazingly, as it rained all day, we continued to enjoy sunny breaks just as we got to a site we wanted to visit. Back in the car, it promptly started raining again. And providentially, when visiting Fort Boonesborough on faith--as it was closed for the day, two young workers opened it up to retrieve something and let us in for a quick look. Down the road we got a chance to see the real walled site of the settlement which as you can see was quite small. Boone's Trace, which began in Kingsport, TN ends here at the Kentucky river.

 

Next, we went to Boone's Station, where Daniel moved his family in 1780 when Boonesborough got too crowded for his liking. It was there that some of his extended and immediate family were buried, including his brother Samuel--who lived to a ripe old age, but sadly also his brother Ned, nephew Thomas, and son Israel--all killed by Indians.

After a nice dinner visit with the Tennant's son, Jon, in Lexington we traveled to Frankfurt in the early evening to see the final resting place of Daniel and Rebecca. What a nice spot overlooking the city and the old Capital building. And wouldn't it figure that as we left we saw two deer and a fox in the graveyard of Daniel Boone!

As we made our way to Louisville for the night, we went by a friend's hometown of Shelbyville and ran into another Boone marker, that of his brother Squire. This was another important frontier station on the Wilderness Road as it led settlers to the Falls of the Ohio--where we bed down for the night.