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Daniel Boone, (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Title:  Daniel Boone, (sculpture). Other Titles:  Boone Trail Marker, (sculpture). Dates:  Dedicated 1927. Medium:  Sculpture: concrete, stone, and bronze; Base: concrete and brick. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 8 ft. x 4 ft. x 14 in.; Base: approx. W. 4 1/2 ft. x 3 1/2 ft. Inscription:  (Plaque, at top:) BOONE TRAIL HIGHWAY (Plaque, at bottom:) DANIEL BOONE (Above bottom inscription:) Metal from Battleship Maine in Tablet Description:  Rustic road marker shaped as an arrowhead pointing upwards. On the front, an inset bronze plaque bearing a portrait of Daniel Boone in low relief. Boone is seated on rocks, body facing proper left, head facing proper right; he holds his hat in his proper left hand and supports his rifle with the proper right. Behind him and to the proper left is a dog. Above this plaque is a small panel of inset brick which once contained five arrowheads (now missing). Subject:  Portrait male -- Boone, Daniel -- Full length Occupation -- Other -- Pioneer Animal -- Dog Object -- Weapon -- Gun Object -- Weapon -- Bow and Arrow Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- North Carolina -- Sanford Sculpture Owner:  Chamber of Commerce, 110 Charlotte Avenue, Sanford, North Carolina Provenance:  Formerly located Near Hawkins Avenue & Carthage Street, Sanford, North Carolina Remarks:  Monies to erect the marker were collected by J. Hampton Rich of Chapel Hill, N. C.; between $50 and $100 was raised locally in Sanford. Marker was installed and dedicated in 1927 at its original location near Hawkins Avenue and Carthage Street. In 1957 the marker was dismantled to make way for a parking lot; its rubble was searched for a metal box containing a list of contributors, which, according to rumor, had been embedded inside. Nothing was found. The monument was reconstituted and relocated to present site. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, North Carolina survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS NC000015   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture NC000015 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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