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12 unusual facts about Boone County


Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni married twice, first in 1892 to Maggie Lina of Bevier, Missouri, and again in 1906 to Emma Belcher of Boone County, Missouri.

Boone County, Arkansas

Portions of Bull Shoals Lake and Table Rock Lake lie in the northeast and northwest corners, respectively.

Boone County, West Virginia

These two deaths with the addition of January's Sago Mine disaster and the Aracoma Alma Mine disaster caused West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to close all of West Virginia's mines in a "mine safety stand-down."

Charles I. Sparks

Born on a farm near Ontario, in Jackson Township, Iowa, Sparks was educated in the rural schools and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.

Chicago Garter Snake

It was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1892, and can be found in the vicinity of rural waterways in northeastern Illinois, such as Piscasaw Creek in Boone County and McHenry County, Illinois.

John J. Foote

John Johnson Foote (February 11, 1816 Hamilton, Madison County, New York – April 15, 1905 Belvidere, Boone County, Illinois) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

Ken Ham

On 28 May 2007 the Answers in Genesis Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky, a project which cost $27 million.

Midwestern Hayride

Inspired by the Shreveport-based Louisiana Hayride, the show was originally called Boone County Jamboree (named for nearby Boone County in Northern Kentucky).

Pryor Brock Farmstead

It was placed on the Register, June 27, 2008, due to its role in the agricultural history of Eagle Township, Boone County, Indiana.

Secular Student Alliance

On August 7, 2009, the SSA organized a trip to the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky.

Sidney D. Jackman

By late in the 1840s he was living in Boone County, Missouri, where he look up work as a schoolteacher as well as farming.

Ward, Indiana

Ward is an unincorporated town in Jackson Township, Boone County, Indiana.


Barry Fell

This is based on Fell's translation, published in the magazine Wonderful West Virginia in 1983, of two rock-cut inscriptions located at archaeological sites in Wyoming and Boone counties, West Virginia.

Shiloh Museum of Ozark History

The geographic region covered by the museum includes the following six counties: Benton County, Boone County, Carroll County, Madison County, Newton County, and Washington County.

United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2012

Walter Christian Schumm, a building contractor; Marcus Carey, a lawyer; Lewis County Judge-Executive Thomas Massie; Boone County Judge-Executive Gary Moore; Brian Oerther, a teacher;state representative Alecia Webb-Edgington; and Tom Wurtz, a business consultant, sought the Republican nomination to succeed Davis.

Yellville, Arkansas

Kelley Linck, a tourism official from Yellville, represents Marion, Searcy, Boone, and Baxter counties in the Arkansas House of Representatives.