"Step back in time to experience the Missouri frontier of the early 1800s at the historic Daniel Boone Home, in the Femme Osage Valley at Defiance, MO. Visitors can see museum pieces including explorer and statesman Boone's writing desk, "Long Rifles," family dishes and period furniture in a special guided tour. The four-story Georgian-style structure was hand-built with quarried Missouri limestone and black walnut by the Boone family over seven years. The house resembles Daniel's birthplace in Pennsylvania and ancestral residences in Devon, England. The house was home to Daniel, his wife Rebecca and their ten children. "
When Boone came to the Femme Osage is was in the early 1790's. Originally they lived in a cabin similar to the one above.
"Daniel traded his bridle, saddle and horse for 650 acres of land. In 1803, when Daniel was 80, he sent his youngest son, Nathan, to New Orleans to register the property to serve as a "living will." New Orleans was the seat of government at the time for the Louisiana territory. "So that is why the house is referred to as the Nathan Boone home even though Daniel lived in this house longer than any other home and help build it."The house features a private apartment for Daniel and Rebecca so they could have peace and quite, noted Stum. She added that when the house was put back together in the early sixties as a touring home, many of the original family furniture pieces were donated by Boone's family. Recently, the historic home and village was merged with Lindenwood University. Funds will be used to continue the restoration of the Boone Home, maintain the gardens, restore and put up more old buildings in the village."
The south facing verandas blocked sunshine in the summer and fall, but let the sun shine into the rooms in winter.
Directions: The Daniel Boone Home is located on MO-F, 5 miles west of the intersection of MO-F and MO-94. This intersection is approximately 1 1/2 miles east of Defiance and 7 1/2 miles southwest of I-64.
The Spring that has provided since Boone moved here.
Spring house.
The village.
Sources:
http://www.greatriverroad.com/stcharles/boonehome.htm
http://www.lindenwood.edu/boone/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone
5 comments:
What, no WalMart Super Store? Boone's home looks considerably more than one would expect. May I add, "May 23rd Wednesday 1804_
We Set out early ran on a Log and detained one hour, proceeded the Course of Last night 2 miles to the mouth of a creek [R] on the Stbd Side called Osage Woman's R, about 30 yds Wide, opposit a large Island and a [American] Settlement.
(on this creek 30 or 40 families are settled, crossed to the settlmt and took in R & Jos Fields who had been sent to purchase Corn & Butter &c Many people Came to See us, we passed a large cave on the Lbd Side (called by the French the Tavern.." Wm. Clark
The editor of the centennial version of the L&C Journals notes
"..the American settlement just below this place was the Kentucky colony recently founded on the Femme Osage River, about six miles aboe it's mouth; amonth these settlers was Daniel Booone, who in 1798 had obtained a grant of land there from the Spanish Authorities, whereon he resided until 1804.." Reuben Gold Thwaites.
The fascinating significance, IMHO is the meeting of the end of one
extraordinary exploration and the beginning of another...meeting face to face. Since I've never been to that area of Missouri, I'm a little confused by the name
La Charrette, which in some documentation is used interchangeably with Femmes Osage.
Are they close together, or did the orignal name change? A great post!!
La Charrette was the settlement at the mouth of the Femmes du Osage creek. Boone's place was on the the Femmes upstream 6 miles. according to the books of maps I have La Charrette would be in the middle of the rive today.
Walmarts, just a matter of time. St. Louis is expanding west with a vengeance. Osage woman's creek is about five feet wide and a foot deep now. People at Boone's home said it was because the springs feeding it have been dying up as people drill wells for their 5.1 acre farms and suburban homes.
The Boone home is accessable either from I-70 or I-44 without too much problem.
I was there in August of 2002, taking the very scenic route from Troy to Columbia. It's a lovely spot, and I hate to think of St. Louis reaching that far. There's some nice wineries in the are too, if I'm remembering correctly.
I was first there in maybe 1970, when it was a State Park(?). I was never there when the building was open however. The developement since that time has been relentless. The immediate area is not too bad, but to the North and East they are a coming.
Very cool. I had no idea Boone moved so far west. Not really very far at all from me, so I do believe it might be a destination at some point, just as Twain's hometown on the Mississippi.
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