Two Physicians Working To Preserve Boone's Trace

• {Kentucky}...Dr. Sam Compton of Nashville, Tennessee, and Dr. John Fox of Lexington, Kentucky, members of the Boone Society, are working together to preserve a trail blazed by Daniel Boone in 1775 from East Tennessee to central Kentucky. The physicians say the trail known as Boone's Trace could be turned into an avenue of economic development, education and recreation. Boone's Trace passes through the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park and three Kentucky state parks - Pine Mountain in Bell County, Levi Jackson in Laurel County and Fort Boonesborough in Madison County. Author K. Randell Jones, who wrote a book about Boone's journeys, says Boone's Trace could become "an economic engine" if it is marked properly and promoted. Fox says the directors of the Cumberland Gap and Levi Jackson parks are interested in the idea. Some areas of Boone's Trace are already marked.