Boone's Lick Road - First Road West - St. Charles, MO
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gparkes
N 38° 45.661 W 090° 32.320
15S E 713860 N 4293133
Historical marker placed at the Mormon Church's sesquintenial anniversary, along the historic Boone's Lick Road.
Waymark Code: WM5T8M
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/09/2009
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The marker states:
BOONE'S LICK ROAD
First road west, 1764
used by Joseph Smith
and the Mormons
1831 – 1839
1980
The trail originated as an old Indian trace. In the 1764, the first part of the trail was expanded by trappers through St. Louis County, Missouri. This part of the trail is known as St. Charles Rock Road. The trail was expanded by brothers Daniel Morgan and Nathanal Boone, sons of famous frontiersman Daniel Boone, as part of gaining access to salt springs near present day New Franklin, Missouri. The complete trail from St. Louis to Franklin, Missouri takes its name from the Boone brothers. In 1821, William Becknell established a trail from Franklin to Santa Fe, Mexico, there by establishing the Santa Fe Trail. The Santa Fe Trail at Kansas City splits off into other major trail such as the California and Oregon Trails. The Boone's Lick trail is the land route to the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail and carried many of those who would settle the west.