Frankfort Cemetery
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The Frankfort Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located on East Main Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The cemetery is the burial site of Daniel Boone, the famed frontiersman, and contains the graves
Entrance to Frankfort Cemetery
Impressionist painter Paul Sawyier
Confederate Monument in Frankfort
Downtown frankfort ky
Rebecca Boone
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Rebecca Bryan Boone was an American pioneer and the wife of famed frontiersman Daniel Boone. She began her life in the Colony of Virginia, and at the age of ten moved with her grandparents and extende
Frankfort Cemetery
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Fort Dobbs was the only fort built in the frontier region of the North Carolina colony. The fort was reconstructed and opened to the public in 2019.
George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1852. Using Biblical and classical imagery to justify and make westward expansion appear heroic, Bingham portrayed Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna, a popular domestic ideal of the time, and she is completed in interpretive ways with a faithful hunting dog and her husband leading a noble charger.
Fort Boone, now Boonesborough, Kentucky
Karl Bodmer, Capture of the Daughters of Daniel Boone and Richard Callaway by the Indians, 1852, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut