{"id":5276,"global_id":"www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=5276","global_id_lineage":["www.crazycrow.com\/site?id=5276"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2016-06-11 02:55:47","date_utc":"2016-06-11 02:55:47","modified":"2019-02-04 20:35:38","modified_utc":"2019-02-04 20:35:38","url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/event\/18th-century-christmas-at-fort-boonesborough\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/5276","title":"18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough","description":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:-20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><h1 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 5px;\">2019 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough<\/h1>\n<div class=\"rating-container\" align=\"right\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0;\">Rate This Event<\/h4>\n<table class=\"rw-rating-table rw-ltr rw-no-labels\"><tr><td><nobr>&nbsp;<\/nobr><\/td><td><div class=\"rw-ui-container rw-class-blog-post rw-urid-10\"><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<p>Celebrate an 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough on December 6-7, 2019 at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Richmond, Kentucky. Visit the Fort to see and hear the differences in the holiday celebrations of the season during the early settlement of Kentucky. During the 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesboro the Fort will be lighted by candlelight, with decorations in keeping with the traditions of the time.<\/p>\n<p>There will be Living History interpretations of the traditions of various ethnic groups and nationalities during the season. Candle lanterns, bonfires, the Christmas Guns, food and refreshments, music and dance, will all add to the atmosphere. Refreshments are included! 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough is a special program sponsored by the Fort Boonesborough Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hours<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm<br \/>\nSundayL: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission:<\/strong> Adult\/ $8.00; Child (6-12) \/$5.00; under 6- free<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nFort Boonesborough State Park<br \/>\n4375 Boonesborough Rd.<br \/>\nRichmond, Ky. 40475<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information<\/strong> about 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough:<br \/>\nPhone 859-527-3131 ext 216 or email Fort Manager bill.farmer@ky.gov<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Fort Boonesborough<\/strong><br \/>\nRichard Henderson, founder of the Transylvania Company in 1775, chose Daniel Boone to head a party of 31 axe men to clear a path through the Cumberland Gap that would run from Long Island of the Holston River, Tennessee, to Otter Creek of the Kentucky River. Blazing the trail presented extraordinary difficulties \u2013 the route through the wilderness was a hunter\u2019s trace that was too narrow for a wagon. The task was to combine The task was to combine many trails into one continuous route by clearing underbrush and overhanging foliage. When Daniel Boone and his men reached the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775, they quickly moved to establish Kentucky?s second settlement&#8211;the site still known as Fort Boonesborough.<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendar so you don&#8217;t miss the next 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Richmond, Kentucky on the second weekend of December.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: 18th Century Christmas at Fort Boonesborough, Christmas at Fort Boonesborough, Colonial Christmas at Fort Boonesborough, Kentucky Living History<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0px;\"><a class=\"blue\" href=\"\/site\/events\/category\/living-history-events\/\">View other Living History Events<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><div 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20:40:33","url":"https:\/\/www.crazycrow.com\/site\/venue\/fort-boonesborough-state-park\/","venue":"Fort Boonesborough State Park","description":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Fort Boonesborough State Park is the location of a reconstructed Fort Boonesborough (completed in 1974) as a working fort complete with cabins, blockhouses and 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Resident artisans perform craft demonstrations and give modern-day visitors a true sense of what life was like for pioneers in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Henderson, founder of the Transylvania Company in 1775, chose Daniel Boone to head a party of 31 axe men to clear a path through the Cumberland Gap that would run from Long Island of the Holston River, Tennessee, to Otter Creek of the Kentucky River. Blazing the trail presented extraordinary difficulties \u2013 the route through the wilderness was a hunter\u2019s trace that was too narrow for a wagon. The task was to combine The task was to combine many trails into one continuous route by clearing underbrush and overhanging foliage.\u00a0When Daniel Boone and his men reached the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775, they quickly moved to establish Kentucky?s second settlement&#8211;the site still known as Fort Boonesborough.[su_accordion][su_spoiler title=&#8221;Read More&#8221;]\nMany trails into one continuous route by clearing underbrush and overhanging foliage. For some stretches however, it meant using axes and tomahawks to clear trees for a new section of trail. It was very expeditiously but roughly done. For decades afterwards, the Wilderness Trail was generally conceded to be the roughest, most disagreeable road on the continent, but was one of the major factors in the opening of the Middle West to colonization. A determined Boone and his loyal followers forged ahead until they reached the settlement site \u201cabout 60 yards from the river, and a little over 200 yards from a salt lick.\u201d On the first of April, 1775, Boone and his woodsmen began the construction of several temporary log huts that were immediately dubbed \u201cFort Boone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What can you see on a visit to Fort Boonesborough?\u00a0A variety of activities take place in the cabins, daily. Also visit the Event Schedule Page for a listing of special events at the fort.\u00a0Visitors to the Fort can walk the grounds, see a short film in the orientation center and visit with the interpreters inside the cabins as they go about their various activities.\u00a0Visitors can also shop in the 18th Century Transylvania Store. 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