Boonesborough, Kentucky

Boonesborough or Boonesboro is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Kentucky, United States.

Founded by famed frontiersman Daniel Boone in 1775 as one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains, Boonesborough lies in the central part of the state along the Kentucky River and is the site of Fort Boonesborough State Park, which includes the Kentucky River Museum.

The region was at that time part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which officially chartered Boonesborough in October 1779.

He then moved to his son Israel's settlement at Boone's New Station near present-day Athens, Kentucky.

Although the town served as a way-station for pioneers venturing further into Kentucky during the 1780s and 1790s, it never attracted a significant long-term population, and thus slowly declined.

Boonesborough in 1778 (from Boonesborough... by George Washington Ranck, 1901).
The Transylvania Purchase at Sycamore Shoals in Elizabethton, Tennessee and the Wilderness Road into Kentucky.
Location of Madison County, Kentucky