Sugar House Bulletin | 1941-11-07 | Page 5 | State will Buy Fulton, Boone Historic Sites

for administration and maintenance of the 127-acre site for the next two years. The other bill appropriates $35,000 for the purchase of the Daniel Boone homestead near Birdsboro, Berks count. Roads leading to the site will be constructed by the state highways department. State Will Buy Fulton, Boone Historic Sites HARRISBURG, PA. The historical histori-cal value of Pennsylvania has been increased considerably with the purchase pur-chase of the homestead and birthplace birth-place of two famous Americans Daniel Boone, and Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat under legislation enacted by the 1941 session. ses-sion. Gov. Arthur H. James approved a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of Robert Fulton's birthplace, birth-place, which still stands in Fulton township, Lancaster county. Another An-other $3,000 was appropriated to' the Pennsylvania Historical commission