What is Boonesborough, Kentucky?
'''Boonesborough''' is an [[unincorporated community]] in [[Madison County, Kentucky]], USA. It is in the central part of the state along the [[Kentucky River]]. It is the site of [[Fort Boonesborough State Park]], which includes the Kentucky River Museum. The park site has been rebuilt to look like a working fort of the days when [[Daniel Boone]] lived there. Boonesborough was founded by Boone as Boone's Station while he was working for Richard Henderson and Nathanial Hart of the Transylvania Company. Boone led a group of settlers through the mountains from Fort Watauga (present-day Elizabethton in Tennessee). He carved the [[Wilderness Road]] through the [[Cumberland Gap]]. He established [[Fort Boonesborough]]. Boone lived there from 1775 to 1779. Boonesborough was the town in the area of present-day Kentucky formally chartered by the Commonwealth of [[Virginia]] which then claimed it. It was also one of the first English-speaking communities west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. Boone successfully led his fellow settlers during the [[Siege of Boonesborough]] in 1778. He then moved to his son Israel's settlement at Boone's New Station near what is now [[Athens, Kentucky]]. [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky]]