Daniel Boone’s Trail, Yadkinville
The memorial consists of a rectangular cast iron plaque attached to a slightly larger stone slab
embedded in the ground.
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DANIEL BOONE’S TRAIL / FROM / NORTH CAROLINA TO KENTUCKY / 1769 / MARKED BY THE N.C. DAUGHTERS OF THE / AMERICAN REVOLUTION
City of Yadkinville
October 29, 1913. Rededication: October 13, 2013
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Jones, Randell. Trailing Daniel Boone, Daughters of the American Revolution Marking Daniel Boone’s Trail, 1912-1915, (Winston-Salem, NC: Daniel Boone Footsteps, 2012)
“North Carolina Daniel Boone Heritage Trail,” North Carolina Daniel Boone Heritage Trail, Inc., (accessed January 11, 2016) Link
“North Carolina Joins In Boone Trail Movement,” Asheville-Gazette News, (Asheville, NC), November 10, 1914, 3
“The Trail Taken by Boone Through State Now Marked,” News and Observer, (Raleigh, NC), July 11, 1915, 17
“The Yadkin County Historical Society, Inc.,” Facebook, www.facebook.com, Esther Johnson, September 29, 2013, (accessed January 11, 2016) Link
“Yadkin County Courthouse—1851-1958,” in Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards (PO77), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Link
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Cast iron, stone
The dedication was attended by teachers and students of the Yadkinville Normal School with
the marker being presented by Mrs. Margaret Kelly Abernathy of the Mecklenburg Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). It was received on behalf of the city by W.E.
Rutledge, editor of the Yadkin Ripple. Students sang “America” and “Carolina” prior to the
unveiling by two students related to Daniel Boone. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson (see subject notes)
was in attendance along with Mrs. William Neal Reynolds, State Regent DAR and Mrs. Edwin
Overman, the society’s state secretary.
The marker was rededicated on October 13, 2013. Randell Jones author of Trailing Daniel
Boone, Daughters of the American Revolution Marking Daniel Boone’s Trail, 1912-1915,
addressed those in attendance. Mayor Hubert Gregory then renewed Yadkinville’s acceptance
of the 100-year old marker.
Daniel Boone’s marked trail begins at Boone Cave Park in Davidson County, NC, crosses the
Yadkin River at the Shallow Ford near Huntsville, and ends at Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky,
where Boone served during the American Revolution. In 1913 Daughters of the American
Revolution (DAR) Chapters placed 13 markers along the North Carolina portion of the trail
which mostly follows Old US Highway 421. Mrs. Lindsay Patterson of Winston-Salem chaired
the project that eventually erected 45 tablets in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and
Kentucky. At the Cumberland Gap (Tennessee) the four states combined to erect a single
commemorative monument.
Daniel Boone is famous for exploring the American frontier beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
He blazed one of the trails that opened up areas west of the Appalachian’s to increased
European settlement. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1734, lived in the Yadkin Valley, North
Carolina from 1752-1769, where he married Rebecca Bryan, raised a large family, and traded
animal furs. He died in Missouri in 1820 and is buried in Kentucky.
The memorial is located right to the right side of the main entrance to the Yadkin County Courthouse, at 101 S. State Street, Yadkinville, NC. The courthouse in use in 1913 was torn down in 1958 and replaced with the current building. The Yadkin County War Memorial stands in front of the courthouse a few feet from and to the right of the front entrance.
The marker stands surrounded by evergreen and deciduous bushes.
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