Historical Marker

Boontown Cemetery

This burial ground was established in the 1880s on property granted to Edward Thomas “Buck” Smith. The cemetery served the Boontown community, which Whitney Alston Boone founded around the Civil War; Boone is among those interred. The earliest marked graves date to 1887, though there may be earlier unmarked burials. Others buried here include early community pioneers and veterans of military conflicts. Southland Paper Mill deeded an acre of land to the property in 1963. Today, descendants of the deceased continue to care for the cemetery, which is the only remaining vestige of the historic Boontown settlement.