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Boone Station

Highway Marker Dedication
Kentucky Historical Society Highway Marker Program
April 21, 2007

Photos by Jim & Kathy Cummings


	BACK TEXT Boone occupied the station until 1784 and his sisiter’s family was there until 1814. Robert Frank bought it in 1795 and built a stone mansion which survived into the 1800’s. In 1991, Robert C. Strader willed some 47 acres, including the site of the station, to the state. Boone’s Station State Park opened in 1992.


	With a Welcome from Phil Gray, Park Manager for both Boone’s Station and Fort Boonesborough the dedication was underway. Gray introduced the attendending dignataries and then turned to Ron Bryant, Historian for Kentucky Department of Parks and Park Manager at Waveland State Historic Site. Bryant told those gathered a brief history of the land at Boone’s Station.

(Left to right) Ken Binder, Central Director, Department of Parks; Marilyn Zoidis, Assistant Director, Kentucky Historical Society; Henry Curtis, Attorney/Parks; Phil Gray, Park Manager, J.T. Miller, Commissoner Kentucky Department of Parks; Brooks Howard Assistant Director of Historic Sites; Bill Farmer, Fort Boonesborough Living History Coordinator; and Ron Bryant, Historian, Department of Parks




		Parks Commisioner J. T. Miller addresses the gathering.




Marilyn Zoidis, Assistant Director of the Kentucky Historical Society.

		Henry Curtis (left) was instrumental in bringing Boone Station to the forefront and working towards it’s further development. He is shown here with Commissioner Miller listening to Ron Bryant’s short history of the land.

	Below reenactors gather around the marker that commemorates Boone’s Station. It is always moving for reenactors to camp on land that the 18th century settlers they portray would have walked.