dirt with street cred

Wildbranch is located less than two miles from Squire Boone Caverns, named after Daniel Boone's less famous brother, Squire.  In 1779 he moved his family to the Falls of the Ohio in an area that would be near what is now Louisville.  And then in 1780 founded the first settlement in Shelby County Kentucky.  But he didn't limit himself to Kentucky.  I suspect he either had ants in his pants or was ADHD, but the guy apparently needed to be on the move.  Or maybe he just needed adventure.  In any case after a failed attempt to establish a settlement near what is now Vicksburg Mississippi and after hanging with his bro Daniel in Missouri for a few years he headed north.  

In 1806 he landed in Harrison County Indiana where both my congregations and my personal dirt are located.  Squire established a settlement here in what is now called Boone Township.  And his settlement took.   Squire personally acquired a huge tract of land on the western edge of the township near a cave he and his brother Daniel used as a hideout years earlier.  According to some sources Boone considered the cave to be sacred.  Here on this land Boone carved stone out of a nearby hill to build his home and religious and political statements can still be found carved into the quarry wall today.  Boone is also credited with building one of the first churches in the state, Old Goshen Church. And he was involved in local politics, was a justice of the peace and apparently was one of the big shots of his day.

All of this blows my mind. Boone and his people surely walked on my land.   In a way I hold this sacred history now in my hands and it makes my knees shake a little bit.  I have dirt with history!  If you come to visit, you will feel it--you will feel the holiness of this place, I promise.