From Birdsboro to Boonesborough: exploring Daniel Boone’s roots in Berks

From Birdsboro to Boonesborough: exploring Daniel Boone’s roots in Berks

Daniel Boone was a man. That’s a fact. That statement also begins the famous theme song for the 1964 television series ‘Daniel Boone,” based on the legendary 18th-century trailblazer and settler of America’s western frontier. One of the first things I learned after moving to Berks County in the late 1990s was that Daniel Boone actually lived here. His Exeter Township childhood home has been preserved as part of the Daniel Boone Homestead. There’…