Boone's Lick Road - Camp Branch (1822) - Warren County, MO
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gparkes
N 38° 50.746 W 091° 14.788
15S E 652175 N 4301122
Camp Branch marker along the historic Boone's Lick Road.
Waymark Code: WM5T7E
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/09/2009
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The marker states:
BOONE'S LICK ROAD
Camp Branch (1822)
Marked by the
Daughters of the
American Revolution
and the
State of Missouri
1913
Camp Branch was a popular camping site for the early immigrants into the new territory. In 1818, Conrad Yater, a German who had married in Virginia, established several mills on Camp Branch Creek. The prominent settlers of the area were William Gibson, a Scotsman, as well as Josiah and Joseph Camp, for whom the settlement was named. Lem Price, from North Carolina, built the first permanent cabin.
The trail originated as an old Indian trace. In the 1764, the first part of the trail was expanded by trappers through St. Louis County, Missouri. This part of the trail is known as St. Charles Rock Road. The trail was expanded by brothers Daniel Morgan and Nathanal Boone, sons of famous frontiersman Daniel Boone, as part of gaining access to salt springs near present day New Franklin, Missouri. The complete trail from St. Louis to Franklin, Missouri takes its name from the Boone brothers. In 1821, William Becknell established a trail from Franklin to Santa Fe, Mexico, there by establishing the Santa Fe Trail. The Santa Fe Trail at Kansas City splits off into other major trail such as the California and Oregon Trails. The Boone's Lick trail is the land route to the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail and carried many of those who would settle the west.