DID YOU KNOW?
A Biography of
Daniel Boone
Article by Michael Joseph Lynch
This next historical figure I heard about while growing up and became more real to me when I started doing Genealogy on my family. The first and second generation of my family comes from Hardin County, Kentucky. After my 4th great-grandparents drove by wagon train from Pennsylvania on the Great Valley Road and got married in Campbell County, Virginia in 1797, they then took the Wilderness Road (Great Wagon Road) through the Cumberland Gap to get to the city of Hodgenville, located in Hardin County, which is very near Louisville, with the birth of their 1st child in 1799 recorded there. So they were on this road that Daniel Boone was a part of the making.
Now, there were only 2 ways of getting to Kentucky back then, one was; that if you were living in Pennsylvania at the
A picture depicting Daniel Boone and his dog
time, you could get on a boat, on the west side of the state of Pennsylvania, and then travel down the Ohio River by boat directly to Louisville, and then take a wagon train directly to Hardin County, Kentucky. The 2nd way is to go through the Wilderness Road (the Cumberland Gap). Daniel Boone, who and 30 men cleared the Wilderness Road in March of 1775, made this famous.