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Boonville may refer to: Places in the United States * Boonville, California * Boonville, Indiana *Boonville, Missouri ** Boonville Township, Cooper County, Missouri *Boonville (town), New York ** Boonville (village), New York, within the town of Boonville *Boonville, North Carolina * Boonville, Texas Other uses * ''Boonville'' (novel), by Robert Mailer Anderson, set in Boonville, California See also * *Booneville (other) Booneville is the name of some places in the United States: *Booneville, Arkansas *Booneville, Iowa *Booneville, Kentucky *Booneville, Mississippi *Booneville, Missouri *Booneville, Tennessee *Booneville, New York *Booneville Channel (Oregon), a Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville, California
Boonville (formerly The Corners and Kendall's City) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located southwest of Ukiah, at an elevation of 381 feet (116 m). The population was 1,018 at the 2020 census. History Boonville was founded by John Bregartes in 1862. It was originally called "The Corners". Bregartes built a hotel there, and in 1864 Alonzo Kendall built another. The town became known as "Kendall's City". W.W. Boone bought a store in town and gave the place its current name. The first post office opened in 1875, having been transferred from Anderson. Geography Boonville is in southern Mendocino County, in the Anderson Valley, north of San Francisco. State Route 128 passes through the town, leading southeast to U.S. Route 101 at Cloverdale and northwest the same distance to the Pacific Ocean near Albion. State Route 253 leads east from Boonville to Route 101 near Ukiah. According to the United States Census Bureau, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville, Indiana
Boonville is a city in Boon Township, Warrick County, Indiana, United States. The population was 6,246 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Warrick County. History Boonville was founded in 1818 and named for Jesse Boon, father of Ratliff Boon. A post office has been in operation at Boonville since 1820. Boonville was incorporated in 1858. President Abraham Lincoln studied law in Boonville. When Abraham Lincoln and his family moved from Kentucky to present-day Spencer County in 1816, their homestead was then considered to be within Boonville's Warrick County boundaries. The future president frequently walked to Boonville to borrow books and watch local attorney John Brackenridge argue cases, thus earning Boonville the distinction of being "where Lincoln learned the law." Points of interest The Boonville post office contains a casein tempera-on-canvas mural titled ''Boonville Beginnings'', painted in 1941 by Ida Abelman. Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville, Missouri
Boonville is a city and the county seat of Cooper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 7,964 at the 2020 census. The city was the site of a skirmish early in the Civil War, on July 17, 1861. Union forces defeated the Missouri State Guard in the first Battle of Boonville. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri metropolitan area. History The community derives its name from Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, who were the sons of Daniel Boone and established their salt business near the community in the early 1800s, delivering their product from salt licks to St. Louis. The area has been called "Boone's Lick" and the route from the lick to St. Charles/St. Louis, Missouri is called the Boone's Lick Trail. The eastern terminus near Boonville at Franklin, Missouri is considered the original start of the Santa Fe Trail. The first pioneers were Hannah and Stephen Cole, who settled in 1810. During skirmishes with Native Americans in the War of 1812 they moved to a fort on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville Township, Cooper County, Missouri
Boonville Township is one of fourteen townships in Cooper County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 9,898. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, Boonville Township covers an area of 53.47 square miles (138.5 square kilometers); of this, is land and 1.65 square miles (4.27 square kilometers, 3.08 percent) is water. Cities, towns, villages * Boonville * Windsor Place Unincorporated towns * Billingsville at * Merna at (This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.) Adjacent townships * Franklin Township, Howard County (north) * Moniteau Township, Howard County (northeast) * Saline Township (east) * Clark Fork Township (southeast) * Palestine Township (southwest) * Lamine Township (west) * Pilot Grove Township (west) * Boonslick Township, Howard County (northwest) Cemeteries The township contains Walnut Grove Cemetery. Major highways * Interstate 70 * U.S. Route 40 * Route 5 * Route 41 * Rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville (town), New York
Boonville is a town in Oneida County, New York, United States. The town is in the northeastern section of the county. The population was 4,555 at the 2010 census. The town includes a village, also called Boonville. The town and village are named after Gerrit Boon, an agent of the Holland Land Company. The current mayor is Judith Dellerba. History The town was first settled ''circa'' 1795. The Town of Boonville was created in 1805 from the Town of Leyden. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 72.6 square miles (188.0 km2), of which 71.9 square miles (186.2 km2) is land and 0.7 square mile (1.8 km2) (0.95%) is water. The northern town line is the border of Lewis County, and the eastern town boundary is the Black River. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 4,572 people, 1,781 households, and 1,209 families residing in the town. The population density was 63.6 people per square mile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville (village), New York
Boonville is a village in Oneida County, New York, United States. The population was 2,072 at the 2010 census. The village is named after Gerrit Boon, an agent of the Holland Land Company. The Village of Boonville is within the Town of Boonville in the northern part of Oneida County, north of Utica. History The first settlement, initiated by Gerrit Boon from Leiden, the Netherlands, was made in 1795. The village was incorporated in 1855. The original name of the community, provided by Boon, was "Kortenaer" (after Egbert Bartholomeusz Kortenaer, a Dutch admiral). Andrew Edmunds was credited with being the founder of Boonville. Edmunds had arrived with Garrit Boon, who is believed to be the first to attempt permanent settlement in Boonville in the spring of 1795. Both men arrived together, constructed a sawmill on Mill Creek, only for it to be completely destroyed by fire when adding a gristmill. As winter approached, Boon and Edmunds relocated to Barneveld to return in the sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville, North Carolina
Boonville is a town in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,222 at the 2010 census. History Boonville was named for Daniel Boone. A post office has been in operation in Boonville since 1857. The town was incorporated by the NC Legislature on February 19, 1895. Boonville Community Volunteer Fire Department The Boonville Community Volunteer Fire Department was organized in 1941 with Harvey Smith serving as its first Chief. The former fire department building has since been named the Harvey E Smith Municipal Building and now houses the police station and meeting space for the town council. The new fire station was erected just south of Main Street in 1997. It houses numerous apparatus and is operated by both volunteer personnel and paid staff. Airport Boonville is home to one non-towered and unattended private use grass airport. FAA identifier: 26NC. At 1,003' elevation, its length is 1,500 feet. Geography Boonville is located at (36.233338, -80.70785 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville, Texas
Boonville was the first county seat of Brazos County, Texas, now a ghost town. History Boonville was the county seat in Brazos County (formerly known as Navasota County) from the 1840s to the 1860s. Boonville was named in honor of Mordecai Boon, Sr., nephew of Daniel Boone. When the Houston and Texas Central Railway was extended from Millican to Bryan in 1866, Bryan was made the county seat. The former town site is now located in Bryan near State Highway 6. Since the 1990s, a cemetery on Boonville Road has been the last remaining structure associated with Boonville. It is marked by a Texas Centennial monument. The area around the cemetery is now the Boonville Heritage Park as of early 2015. The park has new structures including a log cabin built in 1856 and relocated from Grimes County, Texas. The park also features a Six flags over Texas Plaza, a replica of a "Twin Sister Twins are two offspring produced by the same pregnancy.MedicineNet > Definition of TwinLast Editori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boonville (novel)
''Boonville'' is a novel by Robert Mailer Anderson. It was published by Creative Arts Book Company (in association with ''Zyzzyva'' magazine, as a "''Zyzzyva'' First Novel") in 2001, then reprinted by HarperCollins in 2003. It is a San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller and was called one of the "Top 10 Literary Events of 2001." Accolades "It's the funniest first novel by an American writer to come my way since John Kennedy Toole's ''A Confederacy of Dunces.''" -Jonathan Yardley, ''Washington Post'' "A sardonic and beautifully imagined first novel...pages of well-tuned humor...ithan exemplary eye for emotional detail." -''San Francisco Weekly'' "A brilliant new voice-twitchy, corny, sly, cackling, and sad, but most of all, racing with vitality and goosing you to keep up. ''Boonville'' is the creepy and hilarious coming-of-age story the territory deserves-not your parents' ''Vineland,'' but your own." -Jonathan Lethem "A very sick man-and a very funny writer." -Carl Hiaasen Synop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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