FORT BOONESBOROUGH Site — Richmond, Kentucky Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fort-boonesborough-richmond-kentucky/ Boone’s 1775 fort—rebuilt where the frontier began. A site in Richmond, Kentucky, Fort Boonesborough is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Boone’s 1775 fort—rebuilt where the frontier began. The archive files it under the frontier, dark history and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. Fort Boonesborough was built for a colony that never existed — Daniel Boone cut the Wilderness Road in March 1775 and raised the fort on the Kentucky River for Richard Henderson's Transylvania Company, meant to be the capital of a fourteenth colony Virginia refused to recognize. The House of Delegates met under an elm at Boonesborough in May 1775 — one of the first representative assemblies west of the Alleghenies — and Henderson's dream died in the legislature within three years. The fort stayed. The siege that made it famous came in September 1778 — 444 Shawnee warriors and a dozen French allies under Blackfish, the largest force yet sent into Kentucky, against a garrison of fewer than a hundred. Boone stalled the surrender talks for two days, the Shawnee tunneled under the walls and fired torches over them, and the fort held through eleven days and a final failed assault — the fight that kept the American foothold in Kentucky alive while the Revolution ran its course back east. The town that followed failed quietly — chartered by Virginia in 1779 as Kentucky's first town, abandoned by 1820 when the river trade picked other banks. The state park rebuilt the fort as a working replica in the 20th century; the original site sits a few hundred yards away under the memorial stone. The file keeps both Boonesboroughs: the real ground where the garrison held, and the reconstruction where the frontier is performed — the fort that outlasted its colony, its town, and its century. Fort Boonesborough is the archive's first-settlement file — Boone's 1775 fort for a colony Virginia voided, the eleven-day Shawnee siege it survived, and the reconstructed fort standing near the ground where Kentucky began. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Fort Boonesborough is the archive's threshold file — the first fortified settlement in Kentucky, the failed Transylvania capital, and the siege that held the frontier while the Revolution was decided elsewhere. A fort that outlived its colony keeps its riverbank — the file's suggestion being that Boonesborough's hold is the two sites: the real fort's ground under its marker, and the replica where the frontier is rebuilt for the visitors who come looking for it. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] apparition: Reported figures at the fort. The reports at Fort Boonesborough are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. Sources including 'Fort Boonesborough' keep the claim in circulation. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. source: Fort Boonesborough (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Boonesborough_State_Park) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · [1775] The 1775 fort and the 1778 siege are documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Fort Boonesborough'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from. The claim holds its place in the ledger. SOURCES — 1 cited · Fort Boonesborough — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Boonesborough_State_Park — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/