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Boone's cabin, High Bridge, Ky
Boone's cabin in High Bridge, Kentucky

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Daniel Boone First Saw the Woodlands of Present-Day Kentucky
June 7, 1769

June 7 is celebrated as "Boone Day" in Kentucky. Daniel Boone is considered a hero, not for wearing a raccoon-skin cap, which he's said to have done, but for building a road to the state of Kentucky.
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