Boonesborough
Boonesborough or Boonesboro is an unincorporated community in Madison County, Kentucky, United States. Founded by famed frontiersman Daniel Boone in 1775 as one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains, Boonesborough lies…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Madison County, Kentucky, United States
- Also known as: “Boonesboro”, “Boonesborough, Kentucky”, and “Boonesborough, KY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kentucky River Museum.
Kentucky River Museum
The Kentucky River Museum is located in Boonesborough, Kentucky, in Fort Boonesborough State Park. Established in 2002, the museum occupies the former lock operator's home and storage and maintenance building for Lock 10, one of fourteen locks on the Kentucky River which were originally built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hootentown and Ford.
Hootentown
Hamlet
Hootentown is an unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky, United States. Hootentown is situated 1½ miles northwest of Boonesborough.
Ford
Hamlet
Ford is an unincorporated community located in Clark County, Kentucky, United States. Ford sits at the southern end of Kentucky Route 1924. Ford is situated 2 miles south of Boonesborough.
Forest Grove
Hamlet
Forest Grove is an unincorporated community located in Clark County, Kentucky, United States. It was also known as Germantown. Note that Germantown, Kentucky is not the same place. Forest Grove is situated 3½ miles northeast of Boonesborough.
Boonesborough
- Categories: town, unincorporated community in the United States, and locality
- Location: Madison, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.90841° or 37° 54′ 30″ northLongitude
-84.27188° or 84° 16′ 19″ westElevation
827 feet (252 metres)Open location code
869QWP5H+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 153890744OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Volapük—“Boonesborough” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Boonesborough”
- Chinese: “布恩斯伯勒”
- Dagbani: “Boonesborough”
- Dutch: “Boonesborough”
- French: “Boonesborough”
- German: “Boonesborough”
- Irish: “Boonesborough”
- Italian: “Boonesborough”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Boonesborough”
- Norwegian: “Boonesborough”
- Persian: “بونزبورو، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “بونزبورو”
- Russian: “Бунсборо”
- Tagalog: “Boonesborough, Kentucky”
- Tagalog: “Boonesborough”
- Volapük: “Boonesborough (Kentucky)”
- Volapük: “Boonesborough (KY)”
- Volapük: “Boonesborough, Kentucky”
- Volapük: “Boonesborough, KY”
- Volapük: “Boonesborough”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Billy Bush Riverside Park and Fort Boonesborough State Park.
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