Boone's Lick is a Missouri State Historic
Site north of Petersburg. The salt lick or natural saltwater spring was
the primary salt producer for settlements along the Missouri River from
1805 until the 1830s. Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, sons of Daniel Boone,
developed this economic resource. It was at Franklin that the Santa Fe Trail
began as an extension of the Boone's Lick Road.
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