Boonesboro, Missouri

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Boonesboro is a community in Howard County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on Route 87 midway between Boonville and Glasgow in the historical Boone's Lick country. [2]

The community was laid out in 1840 on the Boone's Lick Road and is named for frontiersman Daniel Boone. [3] [4] [5] Boone's Lick State Historic Site is approximately two miles to the west on Missouri Route 187. The approximate population of the town is 150 citizens.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boonesboro, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, 1998, Delorme p.30 ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp.  175.
  4. ↑ Ramsay, Robert L. (1952). Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names. University of Missouri Press. p. 22. ISBN   9780826205865.{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  5. ↑ Earngey, Bill (1995). Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion. University of Missouri Press. p. 21. ISBN   9780826210210.

39°04′37″N92°50′30″W / 39.0769716°N 92.8415770°W / 39.0769716; -92.8415770


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