Daniel Boone Home, Defiance

The Historic Daniel Boone Campus and Boonesfield Village are likely to impress visitors not only with the size of the home but also the scope of the village that is coming to life behind it. The village has expanded to include over a dozen other 19th-century structures, including a chapel and schoolhouse. The Boone home, nearly 200 years old, is large even by today’s standards. It rises four stories — counting a kitchen and dining room in what might be considered a basement — with limestone walls that are 2 1/2 feet thick. The home has seven fireplaces and a ballroom on the top floor.

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