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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 park site has been rebuilt to look like a working fort of the time that Boone resided there.
Route 187 is a short segment of highway running less than five miles (8 km) in Howard County, Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at Route 87 south of Glasgow; its western terminus is at Boone's Lick State Historic Site. No towns are on the route.
Knob Lick is an unincorporated community in southern Saint Francois County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Route DD, just east of U.S. Route 67, approximately eight miles south of Farmington.
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Woodlandville is an unincorporated community in western Boone County, Missouri, United States. The community is on Missouri Route J about six miles south of Harrisburg and 5.5 miles north of I-70 and Rocheport. There is only a church there, and a large water tower, along with a few homes.
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Wilton is an unincorporated community in southwest Boone County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on the northeast bank of the Missouri River across from the Marion Bottoms Conservation Area. Ashland lies approximately six miles to the northeast on Missouri Route M and Sandy Hook lies across the Missouri three miles to the west in Moniteau County. The lone business in Wilton is the Riverview Store, which serves the local community and users on the Katy Trail.
Richland Creek is a stream in Howard County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Missouri River.
Tulip is an unincorporated community in northwest Audrain and southwest Monroe counties, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Monroe county road 92. Long Branch flows past approximately one mile west and north of the site. Moberly is approximately 15 miles to the north-northwest in Randolph County and Centralia is eight miles south in northeast Boone County, Missouri.
Greenlawn is an unincorporated community in southwest Ralls County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route J approximately three miles north of Perry. The Lick Creek arm of Mark Twain Lake lies approximately one mile to the east.
The Smithton Land Company was a group of American pioneers who in 1818 established the frontier village of Smithton, Missouri in the Boonslick region of Missouri, then the Missouri Territory. In 1821 the settlement was renamed Columbia, Missouri and relocated slightly East of its original location. Smithton was the first county seat of Boone County. The company and town were named after Thomas Adams Smith, the receiver of the land office in Franklin, Missouri.
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boonesboro, Missouri
- ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, 1998, Delorme p.30 ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 175.
- ↑ Ramsay, Robert L. (1952). Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names. University of Missouri Press. p. 22. ISBN 9780826205865.
- ↑ Earngey, Bill (1995). Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion. University of Missouri Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780826210210.
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