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Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Daniel Boone Memorial monument on the square in Downtown Mocksville on Sunday, March 16 at 3 p.m.
Farmington’s Joseph Hampton Rich created and distributed hundreds of such arrowhead shaped markers across the country from 1913-1938.
Everett G. Marshall will speak at Sunday’s event. He researched this subject for six years and wrote a book titled, “Rich Man: Daniel Boone.” It describes in 13 chapters, and 323 pages, the biography of Mr. Rich, his objectives for the Boone Trail Highway, its connection with the Battleship Maine (each metal marker was made with salvage from the famous battleship), how the Boy Scouts related, plus the documentation on the 135 known original sites, and photos of the 46 surviving monuments (There’s another in Farmington at NC 801 and Farmington Road. Visit http://www.trading-ford.org/rich_man.html to order the book.
The event is hosted by the Davie County Historical and Genealogical Society and all are invited. Live music and refreshments will be part of the celebration.
If you are a relative of Mr. Rich, contact Marcia Phillips at mphillips@daviecountync.gov. Family members will be recognized.
Bring a chair if you wish to sit through the half hour or so program. If raining, it will happen at the Davie County Public Library on North Main Street.
Rich placed 358 metal tablets between Virginia Beach, Va. and San Francisco, Calif. He established the Boone Trail Highway Association to further his project. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, the association published a newsletter which detailed the efforts to install new monuments.
Rich chose to celebrate Daniel Boone’s trail because of its contribution to the settlement of mid-America by way of the Boone Trail and because he was captivated by the pioneer spirit of that era.
Over the years, many of the markers have been lost to highway construction and urban sprawl. In the late-1990s, a group of descendants of Daniel Boone established the Boone Trail Highway and Memorial Re-Association with the intent of locating the markers which remained.
Approximately 60 have been located, with two in Davie County.
The Mocksville marker reads: :This Memorial Erected to Daniel Boone, hunter, explorer, backwoodsman, soldir (sic), surveyor, roadbuilder, legislator, magistrate. He lived and learned woodcraft in Davie County 1750-85. Squire and Sarah Boone, parents of Daniel Boone, pioneers of the Yadkin whose remains are interred one mile N.W. in Joppa Graveyard; coming from PA 1749. Erected by the Boone Trail Highway Association.”
The Farmington marker reads: “Daniel Boone lived 2 miles S.E. His parents are buried 8 miles S. Here passed the armies of Greene and Cornwallis to Guilford C.H. This memorial erected by the Village Improvement Society.”