THE DANIEL BOONE AND FRONTIER FAMILIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
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Our primary research period is 1700-1820
THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO RESEARCH, ASSEMBLE, RECORD, AND PRESENT
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1- The complete and factual story of Daniel Boone, his ancestry, and his family.
2- The history and genealogy of all of the frontier families who lived in Missouri prior to 1820. Almost all of them came from Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.
3- The true (overlooked) American frontier history, as it moved along (with Daniel Boone) through what is now Virginia and North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky, West Virginia, and on to and through Missouri.
4- All of the Boone related frontier sites on maps, including all known property locations, houses, mills, historic events, and frontier family cemeteries.
5- Photocopies of Boone and associated families official documents: marriage licenses, deeds, wills, probate records, etc., plus family letters.
6- The location of reference sources on our subjects, including available books and archived records.
7- Information to generate public support for preserving the remaining Boone era sites.
It is hoped that through finding, assembling, and presenting our history subjects, that we will educate and interest the public, and gain its support for carrying out our goals, ... our main goal being to establish a Daniel Boone History Museum and a Frontier Families Genealogy Research Center in the "Boone Settlement" of Missouri. This area being the location chosen by Daniel Boone as his "home" for the last 20 years of his life. There has never been a museum built to tell the complete factual story of Daniel Boone and to honor his important place in American history, despite the fact that he has been one of America's foremost recognized legends for over 200 years.
It is interesting to note that the above was written ten years ago, when the goals were only a dream. Through fate, luck or good fortune, within the past five years our Historian Ken Kamper has been involved with Lindenwood University of St. Charles, Missouri, as the Resident Historian at the university’s “Daniel Boone Home Historic Site” near Defiance, Missouri. The university has established a Daniel Boone Campus on 1,000 acres the university owns surrounding the famous home. The site is an ongoing development with a separate 1860 village, and several other authentic Boone period homes, including the actual homes of Daniel’s famous daughter Jemima Callaway, and his brother and constant companion Squire. During the past several years Ken has proposed a Daniel Boone History Museum and a Boone/Early American History Research Center. The Research Center is currently in the design stage. It is hoped that the site will also become the home for the Daniel Boone History Museum.