Boone County, Kentucky
| Boone County, Kentucky | |
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The old Boone County courthouse in Burlington
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 Location in the U.S. state of Kentucky |
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 Kentucky's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1798 |
| Named for | Daniel Boone |
| Seat | Burlington |
| Largest city | Florence |
| Area | |
| • Total | 256 sq mi (663 km2) |
| • Land | 246 sq mi (637 km2) |
| • Water | 10 sq mi (26 km2), 3.9% |
| Population | |
| • (2010) | 118,811 |
| • Density | 349/sq mi (135/km²) |
| Congressional district | 4th |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 |
| Website | www |
Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 118,811, making it the fourth-most populous county in Kentucky. Its county seat is Burlington. The county was formed in 1798 from part of Campbell County. and was named for frontiersman Daniel Boone.
Boone County is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the location of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which serves Cincinnati and the tri-state area and was the former headquarters of Comair.
Native Americans left a large late historic village in Petersburg that contained "at least two periods of habitation dating to 1150 A.D. and 1400 A.D."
An unnamed Frenchman in 1729 drew an area on his chart where Big Bone Lick State Park in modern-day Boone County exists with a French inscription that translates to "where they found the bones of an elephant." Later on, another Frenchman, Charles le Moyne de Longueuil (1687–1755) would be credited with investigating the Big Bone Lick area.
In 1789, 10-year-old John Tanner was captured by Shawnee Indians in Boone County, across from the mouth of the Great Miami River, while his Presbyterian minister father, brother, and their slaves were planting corn.
Boone County was founded in 1798, and named after Daniel Boone.
On January 28, 1856, Robert and a pregnant Margaret "Peggy" Garner, together with family members, escaped and fled to Cincinnati, Ohio, along with several other slave families. Seventeen people were reported to have been in their party. In the coldest winter in 60 years, the Ohio River had frozen. The group crossed the ice just west of Covington, Kentucky at daybreak, and escaped to Cincinnati, then divided to avoid detection. They set out for Joseph Kite's house in Cincinnati.
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