History of the Land

The Buffalo Cove valley sits in the gray area between the defined territories of the great American Indian Nations of the Cherokee and Catawba. There is evidence all around of these two great cultures. In the mid 1700’s, Daniel Boone began to take long hunts over the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of deer to supply the demand from Britain’s deer hide market. At the time, Daniel’s home was in the upper Yadkin River Valley (somewhere around Wilkesboro, NC). He followed the Yadkin River upstream and through a cove where he would commonly see woodland buffalo (now extinct), and then up into modern day Boone, NC. Buffalo Cove is located in the area where Boone crossed paths with wild woodland buffalo.