In 1775 Daniel Boone established Boone’s Station to the southeast of what’s now Lexington, Kentucky. Boone’s Station, owned by the Transylvania Company headed by Richard Henderson and Nathaniel Hart, was set up for protection of settlers moving to the area.
And it was on this day that year that Boone’s Station was renamed Boonesborough, at the insistence of Mr. Henderson, to honor Daniel Boone.
Booneborough continued to serve as a way-station for settlers moving into the Kentucky wilderness in the 1780s and 1790s.
