Daniel Boone Home - 2008 Events
Many new, exciting events have been added this year. If you have been here before, please come again and enjoy the new additons to the Boonesfield Village experience.
March 29 & 30: OREGON TRAIL DAYS - This is an interactive event that depicts the great migration. Visit with families that are headed to The Promised Land called Oregon. Find out what it took to leave your home to cross a great "wilderness" for the promise of a new and better life.
April 26 & 27: 1861 - A COMMUNITY PREPARES FOR WAR - The year is 1861 and shots have been fired on Fort Sumter. The nation is now at war. America's army was small and the call went out to all communities for volunteers to take up arms. In Missouri, the question of supporting the Union, or the newly formed Confederacy, was not as easily answered as in other areas of the country. From the first shot, this conflict spilled over into the lives of everyone. Citizens of this quiet community are being called on to leave their families and march into the service. Visitors will have the chance to speak with men and women making difficult decisions and fearing the worst, yet having to go on with the daily activities needed for maintaining and sustaining life.
May 3: FIBER ARTS & SPRING PLANTING FESTIVAL - It's Spring and as the season is welcomed in, cabins get cleaned, gardens are planted, and Boonesfield residents "turn out" after the cold winter hibernation. The event will focus on the various fiber arts and "Spring" activities experienced by folks in the early 1800s..
June 14: LOUISIANA PURCHASE DAY - The transfer of Louisiana from France to the young United States was celebrated, debated, fought over, and ultimately established the reality of a nation that reached "from sea to shining sea."
July 4: INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION - During the times of the Boone family here on the Femme Osage, Independence Day was the American holiday. Roll up all of our holidays into one big day and you might have the same excitement as a good old-fashioned Fourth of July!
September 20 & 21: PIONEER DAYS - A pre-1840s Folkways Festival and Encampment. Artisans, music, historic encampment, and good food make this a glorious day in the beautiful Femme Osage Valley. Step into the past to experience life on the early Missouri frontier and learn about the Boone legacy.
October 25: HALLOWEEN: GHOSTS FROM THE PAST - Halloween has always been a favorite for children of all ages. Storytellers populate Boonesfield Village and share tales of ghosts, ghouls, goblins, and all of those unexplained things that go bump in the night. This event is designed as a kids friendly program but does offer true stories of experiences that are hard to explain.
December
5 & 6 and 12 & 13: ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT
TOUR - Usher in the holiday season with a visit to
the Boone Home & Boonesfield Village. More than a dozen buildings
are decorated in 19th century fashion and are illuminated with
thousands of candles, lanterns, bonfires and starlight. Period
music will echo through the valley offering a simpler, more delightful
holiday experience.
Lindenwood University
209 S. Kingshighway
St. Charles, MO 63301
© 2008 Lindenwood University
For information on these special events call (636)798-2005
Welcome to the Daniel
Boone Campus of
Lindenwood University
Lindenwood University
welcomes you to the
home
of Daniel Boone during the years he and his son, Nathan, lived in Missouri. Please stop by
when in Missouri.
STEP BACK INTO MISSOURI'S
PAST! The Historic Daniel
Boone Home is a four-story structure built between 1804 and 1810
in the Femme Osage Valley of St. Charles County. It was the last
permanent residence of Daniel Boone and his wife, Rebecca, and
was where he died in 1820. The adjoining Boonesfield Village is a collection of historic buildings
from throughout Missouri that are being reconstructed to form
a living history village and a center for the study of history,
traditional arts, natural sciences and ethics.The Historic Daniel
Boone Home and Boonesfield Village are part of the Lindenwood
University system.
General Description of
the Boone Home Site
The Historic
Daniel Boone Home and Boonesfield
Village are open all year round. The grounds are accessible
by guided tour only, except for special events.
The Historic Daniel Boone Campus and Boonesfield Village are
likely to impress visitors not only with the size of the home
but also the scope of the village that is coming to life behind
it. The village has expanded to include over a dozen other 19th-century
structures, including a chapel and schoolhouse. The
village is populated by interpreters in period dress, with more
performers and artisans to come as the village grows.
The Boone home, nearly 200 years old, is large even by today's
standards. It rises four stories -- counting a kitchen and dining
room in what might be considered a basement -- with limestone
walls that are 2 1/2 feet thick. The home has seven fireplaces
and a ballroom on the top floor.
One famous structure is the Sappington/Dressel Home, formerly located
on Gravois Road in St. Louis. After being obtained by Lindenwood
University it was disassembled in the spring of 1988 by Randell
Andrae, two full time paid staff members of the then Historic
Daniel Boone Home, Inc., and 2 volunteers, Bob Pecoraro and Barney
Combs. It was then reconstructed at its present site. There is
a bronze plaque inside the Sappington/Dressel Home describing
this historic restoration..
Other historic structures have also been acquired, primarily from
St. Charles and Warren counties.
The University's goal is to create a living-history
village that that reflects the time of the Louisiana Purchase
and early statehood, which came for Missouri in 1821, a year after
Boone died.
BOONE HOME SEEKS VOLUNTEERS DURING 2008
Interested
in history and looking for something to do with your time? Consider
being a Boone Home Volunteer. Lindenwood University's Daniel Boone
Home and Boonesfield Village has many opportunities for someone
willing to volunteer their time once a month, once a week or as
often as you are willing to enjoy being part of the family. The
Boone Home is located in the Defiance, MO area on Highway F between
Highway 94 and New Melle.
Volunteers can participate in activities such as Demonstrators, Heritage Landscaping, Curatorial Assistant, Special Events and Programming, Retail Services in our Museum Shop and as an Historic Escort Interpreter.
Volunteering at the Boone Home is rewarding and a great place to escape to. Daniel Boone and his family chose to settle here when they arrived from Kentucky and the reason is clear. The landscape is beautiful and the vision is to preserve that essence of frontier life.
Training is available for each volunteer opportunity and we will try to fit you in a position that will suit your interests. If you would like to be part of Pioneer Days or the Candlelight Tour, the time to prepare is now. Don't wait, call Kacky Garner at 636-798-2005 or e-mail mail to kgarner@lindenwood.edu to schedule an interview.Interested in history and looking for something to do with your time? Consider being a Boone Home Volunteer. Lindenwood University's Daniel Boone Home and Boonesfield Village has many opportunities for someone willing to volunteer their time once a month, once a week or as often as you are willing to enjoy being part of the family. The Boone Home is located in the Defiance, MO area on Highway F between Highway 94 and New Melle.
Volunteers can participate in activities such as Demonstrators, Heritage Landscaping, Curatorial Assistant, Special Events and Programming, Retail Services in our Museum Shop and as an Historic Escort Interpreter.
Volunteering at the Boone Home is rewarding and a great place to escape to. Daniel Boone and his family chose to settle here when they arrived from Kentucky and the reason is clear. The landscape is beautiful and the vision is to preserve that essence of frontier life.
Training is available for each volunteer opportunity and we will try to fit you in a position that will suit your interests. If you would like to be part of Pioneer Days or the Candlelight Tour, the time to prepare is now. Don't wait, call Kacky Garner at 636-798-2005 or e-mail mail to kgarner@lindenwood.edu to schedule an interview.
The Boonesfield
Village currently contains:
* A furnished schoolhouse, circa 1831, from St. Paul, Missouri.
* A milliner's shop, circa 1840.
* A woodworker's shop, circa 1837, from Flint Hill, Missouri.
* Peace Chapel, circa 1840-60, from New Melle, Missouri complete with a reconstructed 28-stop Wicks pipe organ
* Stake House, circa 1828-40, formerly a merchant's house in the Femme Osage Valley of Missouri.
* The Sappington-Dressel House, circa 1807, from south St. Louis County. The Lindbergh School District in St. Louis was planned and a charter was written for it in the house's dining room.
* Borgmann Animal Driven Mill, circa 1840, a gristmill originally constructed in Missouri's Femme Osage Valley.
* Fritz Von Der Bruelge General Store, circa
1830, from Schluersburg, Missouri.
WHAT'S COMING UP:
Two buildings are scheduled for addition to the Boonesfield Village:
* Flanders Callaway House, circa 1812, the home of Daniel Boone's daughter Jemima Boone Callaway, originally constructed near Marthasville, Missouri.
* Newton Howell Log House, circa 1814, the home of Daniel Boone's brother-in-law.
Boonesfield Village has acquired another treasure: a newly discovered
small Spanish Fort built in 1793. Click Here for an article courtesy of the
St. Louis Post Dispatch and St. Louis Today.
One of the most historic homes in Missouri being reconstructed.
by Margy Miles. ©2007
* For the full article and many more photos viisit Margy's wonderful Boone website at http://www.danielboonefamily.org
The large 2 story log home of Daniel Boone's daughter, Jemima, and her husband, Flanders Callaway, was built by them shortly after the Boone clan moved to Louisiana Territory (present state of Missouri). It was located on their farm near the little village of LaCharette which was at the present town of Marthasville.
Flanders and Jemima raised their family in this home and lived out the remainder of their lives here. This is where several of their children were born and the site of their weddings. It is where grandchildren were brought into the world and where Flanders and Jemima died in 1829 and 1834. The house is also where Daniel's wife, Rebecca, died in 1813 and where Daniel's only life portrait was painted by artist Chester Harding in 1820 .[See photo of painting below]
The house is now owned by Lindenwood University and is being reconstructed on the old farm at the Historic Daniel Boone Home in the Femme Osage Valley. This is a very important relic from the Boone family and Missouri history. I will attempt to post pictures of the reconstruction as it progresses. Soon Boone Home guests will be able to tour this historic home.
Article by Margy Miles. Visit her
detailed Boone website with many more photos of the Callaway House
and many features on the Boone family at http://www.danielboonefamily.org
© 2007 Margy Miles*Visitor count 
since January 1, 1999
For more information
on the Boone home, Call
(636) 798-2005
SPECIAL
NOTE: For
many years, I had maintained the "official" page for
our treasured Daniel Boone Home. I am a History teacher at Visitation Academy of St. Louis. In 2002, I was pleased to announce that
internet information has been provided by the talented folks in
the communications department at Lindenwood University. I continue
to express my thanks to the thousands of visitors to this site
over these many years. A special thanks goes to the thousands
who have visited our beloved Daniel Boone Home over these past
years. Hopefully my work on this web site has encouraged people
to cherish our national treasures like the Daniel Boone Home.
I will continue to keep this web site as a mirror of all the key
information provided by Lindenwood University. Visit the Boone web site of Lindenwood University for all the latest.
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Dan Monahan, dmonahan@visitationacademy.org
Gate of
the beautiful Lindenwood
University,
209 S. Kingshighway, St. Charles, Missouri, 63301.
© 2008 Dan Monahan
* Special thanks to Margy Miles for the additional photos on these pages.
Visit her outstanding Boone website at http://www.danielboonefamily.org