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Where the frontier still feels real
About 23 miles southeast of Lexington, the Kentucky River bends through Madison County, and right there on the west bank sits Fort Boonesborough State Park.
The park holds a full-scale replica of the fort Daniel Boone and his men raised in 1775, complete with log cabins, blockhouses, and the kind of period furnishings that make you forget what century you drove in from.
The site carries both National Historic Landmark and National Register of Historic Places status. But the fort is just the start of what pulls people here.
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