"Capture of the Boone and Callaway Girls"
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This lithograph was created ca. 1852. Although the capture and rescue of Daniel Boone’s daughters occurred in 1776, it did not become popular knowledge until Filson’s 1784 “Kentucke” was published. Courtesy of Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Washington's Land
Washington's Land
Historical Marker #212 marks five thousand acres of land owned by George Washington in present-day Grayson County.
These five thousand acres in Grayson County was the only land in Kentucky owned by General George Washington. The deed to the land…