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	The Fort is closed for the winter except for scheduled events.


	An 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough


	December 6, 2024 6 pm - 9 pm

		December 7, 2024 1-4 pm

			Admission - Adult $7 Child (6 -12) - $5 under 6 - free

This event sponsored by The Fort Boonesborough Foundation


	Visit the Fort to see and hear the differences in the holiday celebrations of the season during the early settlement of Kentucky. The Fort will be lighted by candlelight, with decorations in keeping with the traditions of the time. Candle lanterns, bonfires, the Christmas Guns, food and music, will all add to the atmosphere.


	Re-Enactors wishing to help - contact Kristi Heasley for details.


The Fort Boonesborough Foundation announces 2025 Fundraiser

		Now open



	Click here for details


	Books from Fort Boonesborough Foundation


	NEW!

			In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone

		Revised Edition $27.95 +S&H By Randell Jones

This biography of America’s pioneer hero tells his life story by putting it on the landscape, illustrated by photographs captured of living history reenactors during the last 20 years.

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		Colonel John Holder Boonesborough Defender and Kentucky Entrepreneur By Harry Enoch $25.00 +S&H

Follow the story of Col. John Holder, one of the heroic defenders of Boonesborough, and commander of the fort after Daniel Boone left Kentucky, in this detailed new book by author Harry Enoch.

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Images of America Bonesborough

		Purchase this book

	$24.95 + S+H


		by Harry Enoch

Boonesborough is one of America’s most historic and scenic places

	With the opening of the replica fort at the state park, visitors now have an opportunity to take a walk back in history—a journey to the western frontier of 1775.


			Settling Boonesborough Journals, Letters and Other Documents, 1775 by Harry Enoch & Anne Crabb

		$15.95 + S&H

Few places have a more storied past than Boonesborough, the Kentucky frontier outpost of the Transylvania Company. Boonesborough was a major focal point for the host of pioneers migrating West in 1775 and thereafter. This tiny settlement on the banks of Kentucky River would weather multiple Indian attacks, the capture and rescue of the daughters of Daniel Boone and Richard Callaway, the capture and captivity of Boone's salt makers, and a protracted siege of the fort by more the 400 Shawnee Indians. This work tells the story of Boonesborough's first year from journals, letters and other documents of 1775.


			Crisis in the Wilderness: The Capture and Rescue of the Boone and Callaway Girls, 1776 by Harry G. Enoch & Anne Crabb

	$18.00 + S & H


	Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archeology at a Revolutionary Fort by Nancy O'Malley

			$29.00 +S&H




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	ALL BOOKS are shipped in the USA only. For purchases from other locations please contact info@fortboonesboroughfoundation.org for shipping information.


	Books are also available for purchase in the Transylvania Store.


	The Historic Elk Antler


	The Elk antler bears the writing D BOONE 1778 on it.




		See Photos of the Presentation Ceremony and see more photos of the Antler

The Fort Boonesborugh Foundation is proud to display this 18th century elk antler. It was donated in 2017 by Janice B. Langston and her daughter Andra Gyor. The Antler is in a special case in the fort store.

It was the task of the foundation to examine the antler and learn as much as possible about it. With the help of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation the antler was carbon dated and proven to be of an elk of that time period. Although elk have been reintroduced to Kentucky in recent years they are of a different subspecies than the 18th century extinct elk.

Discovering anything about the D. Boone carving is more difficult. Experts say it is impossible to prove. But the importance of the name is that because of it, the antler that would have otherwise been lost to the elements, was preserved by the Fisher family.

The antler was found in Bourbon County, Kentucky near Hinkston Creek This is an area Daniel Boone was known to have traveled many times during his years in Kentucky.


		Banners on the Cabins now help interpret what happens at the fort


	The Daniel Boone Memorabilia Collection

On April 15, 2017 Fort Boonesborough State Park held the official opening of The Daniel Boone Memorabilia Collection. After a lifetime of collecting, Mr. Ray Buckberry of Bowling Green, Kentucky has donated his memorabilia collection to the Fort Boonesborough Foundation. The Foundation has placed the collection on loan to the State Park. Mr. Buckberry along with members of the foundation joined together for the opening at 1:30 pm inside the fort. Learn More


	Authentic Powder Horn Donated to Fort Boonesborough Foundation



		Keith Crawford and his wife Angela donated the above powder horn to The Fort Boonesborough Foundation during the June “Gathering of Descendants” Event. The original powder horn will remain on permanent display at the Fort. Special thanks to the Crawford’s for this incredible donation. To see more photos and learn the story of the horn click here.


	Frank T. Barnes Collection of Ironwork

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The original Fort Boonesborough was built by Daniel Boone and his men in 1775


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