Daniel Boone

American pioneer, explorer of cakes.

Ok, maybe Daniel Boone wasn’t an explorer of cakes, but today we were explorers of cake and found one at the Historic Daniel Boone Home and Heritage Center. I remember visiting here when I was in fifth grade. I don’t remember too much though. I thought about actually doing a tour but I was a little weary of Andrew not having a good time so I passed. There are two different types of tours. One is a guided tour for an hour and the other is a self-guided tour but you are not allowed to go into the buildings. I wanted to go into the buildings but didn’t think Andrew would keep interest for an hour. Maybe the kids will go on a field trip there when they are in fifth grade.

The lady at the gift shop told me that all the houses on the property were actually different houses from 5 to 10 miles away and were brought there to be set up to look like a village from the 1800s. I always assumed that Daniel Boones home was here, hence the name Daniel Boone Home and Heritage Center, but come to find out, the property is actually of his youngest son, Nathan. Daniel’s home was 4 miles away. Daniel spent more time at his son’s house than his own. That’s because it took several years for Daniel’s home to be built since it was four stories tall and had limestone walls that were two and half feet thick.

Cake artist - John Troy

Guest blogger - Diane

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