historic daniel boone home and heritage center

I took my three young boys ages 10, 8, and 6. The tour guides were supper friendly and kept the boys entertained. The buildings were clean and well maintained. I love history and it was great to be in the same home that Daniel Boone was in. There were buildings that had been moved to the property and they were in great shape also. I highly recommend this place.

Thank you for visiting the Historic Daniel Boone Home & Heritage Center. We are glad that you found our site interesting. We enjoy sharing the legacy of Daniel Boone with our visitors, especially today's youth! I'm glad you mentioned that weddings are held on site at our Old Peace Chapel. It is the perfect setting for a quaint, picturesque wedding. Thank you again for visiting. We hope you can visit us again soon!

Lovely area and amazing tours, if you have time try touring the entire village, great cultural and historical insight, perfect for foreigners and kids.Try asking for details and you never know what will you learn

historic site. (It was made perfectly clear in every piece of information I saw that the home actually belonged to Daniel's son, Nathan, but that Daniel spent his last years and died in the home and that the buildings in the "village" were moved to the area to present a village as it would have been during the 19th century so I do not understand some of the confusion of other reviewers.) Our docent was very knowledgeable, extremely pleasant, and quite eager to accommodate any questions no matter how unusual (& being a history buff I can find some seriously unusual questions). We spent well over the allotted hour's time touring the home and found It fascinating fr/ a historical perspective as well as an architectural one. Many of the items in the house are period pieces w/ a few actual Boone artifacts but that is to be expected in a home over 200 years old that was located--at the time--in the "middle of nowhere". As mentioned the village is a collection of period buildings moved to represent life in the 19th c and is a nice aside to the Boone home but not anything particularly different fr/ other similar settings so if pressed for time tour the Boone home and skip the village. Part of the charm is the setting of the home near the river and seriously "off-the-beaten-path" as we enjoyed the scenic drive to the house as well (despite the rain).

Thank you for visiting the Historic Daniel Boone Home & Heritage Center and taking time to review our site. Your suggestions help us to ensure that our information we present is as factual as possible. Our Interpreters continuously strive to improve their knowledge of Daniel Boone and his legacy. Hopefully you will be able to visit us again and enjoy a village tour. The village tour lets you explore 4 - 5 buildings within the village.

Thank you for taking the time to write such a wonderful review on the Historic Daniel Boone Home & Heritage Center! Although a visit to our site wouldn't be complete without a tour of the "Boone Home", the village is also an added educational tool which gives a hands-on example of everyday life in the 1800s. We are currently adding additional buildings in the village portion of our site. Our pavilion should be completed by early winter and the blacksmith house is near completion as well. We hope you will have a chance to visit again soon to see our ongoing improvements!

Thank you for visiting the Historic Daniel Boone Home & Heritage Center and taking the time to share your experience on Trip Advisor. I agree that we are conveniently located on the outskirts of St. Louis, in the heart of Missouri Wine Country. It's a beautiful drive to Defiance, with many local restaurants and wineries to enjoy following a tour of the Boone Home. Thanks also for mentioning our helpful staff as they strive to make everyone's visit a memorable one!

We were happy to have come upon this historical attraction. If you like history, you should like this. My husband and I didn't even know Daniel Boone lived and died in Defiance, MO, so we found this to be very interesting. The tour guide was very good filling in some history of the Boone family and Daniel himself. Well worth the time to visit.

If you like USA history then you must see the Daniel Boone Home. It's close to wineries, small towns and the St Louis area.

Have the opportunity to take two individual tours or combine them...one tour covers the house and the other the village. we combined the tour and was disappointed in the village tour. The house is interesting and OK but the village is really a bunch of buildings of the period that have been moved to this site. I don't really know if any of them were there when Daniel lived out the later years of his life. We had two different guides for the tours...one was OK and the other not very good. Really is a site you can skip on your vacation.

All the building were moved to the "village" to simulate the time period. If you do not take the guided tour you can only view them from the outside. Even with the guided tour, you do not get to tour them all. I was very disappointed since I thought it was a "working" farm. There needs to be two tour guides for each tour since our guide had to keep running around to the back of the building to unlock the doors. All the buildings are locked with padlocks. The tour guides seem to be graduate students but they were very informative. The house tour isn't even Daniel's either. It was his son's. Again, disappointed. I do not suggestion taking both tours at the same time as each is an hour long and there wasn't a break between the two. It is also along, windy drive from St. Louis to the home.

Visited as a two couple party. Bought the $10 combined tour. The house structure is of interest. The furnishings are merely old things of a type that might be found in similar places. The presenter was nice but not well informed about its use or the events in Boone times (not that anyone is) or how the house came to the present state. The other part of the tour was permission to stroll about the grounds with a pamphlet. Grounds being filled with a collection of old buildings brought in from where they were found. For what purpose I wonder.

The Daniel Boone home and heritage center is a nice bit of history in the beautiful countryside of Missouri! It isn't too far off the highway and its a nice winding drive to get there, so going during the fall season would be twice as nice! The place is really setup very nicely and staffed by local college students, so their knowledge about "all things Daniel Boone" is outstanding! There are several buildings to look at over the 1000 acres of the estate. It is fun either taking the self-guided tour or the guided tour which takes about 2 hours to go inside several of the buildings, hear the information about the buildings and take pictures. The tours don't cost very much at all. They also offer special holiday events and an interactive summer camp for kids! They don't have much in terms of refreshments, but it is in Missouri wine country and there are restaurants and shops nearby!

Do yourself a favor and take the guided tour.The tour takes you thru the home that was ol Dan'l's sons home as it turned out. Lots of history about how the home was built, a good number of period antiques and facts abt Boone you might not know.The tour of the grounds was interesting and it was surprising to hear about all the technology the people of that time had made.I found the carpenter shop and chapel interesting but I'm sure you will be interested in seeing the school house too.Highly recommend this tour.

We take short trips from time to time with some dear friends and are always looking for interesting places within a day's journey. We were in the St. Louis area and decided to stay at the Wildwood Hotel in Wildwood, MO which was a gem and then made our way to the Daniel Boone Homestead. It was a very informative visit with great opportunity for our photographic friend to get some great pictures. The place was clean, well cared for and staffed by some college kids who were courteous and very knowledgeable. In fact, their passion for history and saving this kind of heritage was encouraging. There is a dandy little gift shop with good selection of books about life "back then." We were all very glad we took the tour - the area is just lovely and refreshing.