Curtis Penix, a 46-year-old Michigan native with Kentucky roots, plans to hike the 200-mile trek marked by Daniel Boone almost 250 years ago. Penix will start his 16-day journey on March 10, 2015 at Long Island on the Holston River in Kingsport, TN — the site from which Daniel Boone and his party left in March 1775.
Following ancient Indian and buffalo trails, Boone and his party of ax-wielding men blazed a pathway through the wilderness from Tennessee through the Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky. This pathway not only gave tens of thousands of European settlers a way into land in what would become the present-day commonwealth of Kentucky but, also, opened the gateway to the settlement of the west.
Although much of Boone’s original road has been lost to natural forces and land development, Penix will follow the route determined by the research in the late 1960s of pioneer history author Neal O. Hammon and, most recently, by Dr. John Fox, president of the Friends of Boone Trace — an organization dedicated to historical, educational and research activities for the preservation of the Trace and its legacy.
This project is being planned not only to promote the hike and the trail itself, but also to stimulate tourism for the historical sites and communities along the route.
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