Again Virginia took official note of Captain Boone when in 1779
the Legislature established Boonesborough "a town for the
reception of traders" and appointed Boone himself one of the
trustees to attend to the sale and registration of lots. An odd
office that was for Daniel, who never learned to attend to the
registration of his own; he declined it. His name appears again,
however, a little later when Virginia made the whole of Kentucky
one of her counties with the following officers: Colonel David
Robinson, County Lieutenant; George Rogers Clark, Anthony
Bledsoe, and John Bowman, Majors; Daniel Boone, James Harrod,
Benjamin Logan, and John Todd, Captains.
Boonesborough's successful resistance caused land speculators as
well as prospective settlers to take heart of grace. Parties made
their way to Boonesborough, Harrodsburg, and even to the Falls of
the Ohio, where Clark's fort and blockhouses now stood. In the
summer of 1779 Clark had erected on the Kentucky side of the
river a large fort which became the nucleus of the town of
Louisville. Here, while he was eating his heart out with
impatience for money and men to enable him to march to the attack
of Detroit, as he had planned, he amused himself by drawing up
plans for a city. He laid out private sections and public parks
and contemplated the bringing in of families only to inhabit his
city, for, oddly enough, he who never married was going to make
short shift of mere bachelors in his City Beautiful.
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