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Source:  Boone Trail Tablet, Salisbury. Photo by Rusty Long

  • Monument Name

    Boone Trail Tablet, Salisbury

  • Type

    Plaque

  • Subjects

    Historic Civic Figures

    Geography

    Colonial History

  • City

    Salisbury

  • County

    Rowan

  • Description

    The bronze plaque has an arched top with the Daughters of the American Revolution logo surrounded by 13 stars with the inscription below.

    Images:
    Far-off view | Street view

  • Inscription

    BOONE TRAIL 1769 / FROM THIS TOWN / RICHARD HENDERSON IN BEHALF / OF HENDERSON AND COMPANY / DESPATCHED DANIEL BOONE, / JOHN FINDLAY, JOHN STUART, / JOSEPH HOLDEN, JAMES MOONEY, / AND WILLIAM COOLEY TO EXPLORE / THE WILDERNESS OF Kentucky. / ERECTED BY / ELIZABETH MAXWELL STEELE CHAPTER / D.A.R.

  • Dedication Date

    July 4, 1914

  • Decade

    1910s

  • Geographic Coordinates

    35.667670 , -80.469820 View in Geobrowsemap pin

  • Series

    DAR Daniel Boone's Highway Marker

  • Supporting Sources

      "Grubb Building, Salisbury, N.C." in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (P077), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill Link

      “Salisbury Celebrates the Fourth of July in Most Approving Manner,” Salisbury Evening Post (Salisbury, NC), July 4, 1914

  • Public Site

    Yes

  • Materials & Techniques

    Bronze

  • Sponsors

    Elizabeth Maxwell Steele Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution

  • Monument Dedication and Unveiling

    Governor Locke Craig and Dr. Archibald Henderson of the University of North Carolina were the featured dedication speakers.

  • Location

    The memorial tablet is located on the Main Street front of the Plaza Building at the corner of W. Innes Street and N. Main Street in Salisbury, NC. It was originally known as the Grubb Building or Wallace-Grub Building.

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