Boonville, NC

Boonville is a Yadkin County town with a name that carries a little frontier mythology. It was named for Daniel Boone, whose family settled in the Yadkin Valley in the 1750s and who returned to the region during his adult life. Boonville’s post office has been operating since 1857, giving the town a long-running link to the wider county’s everyday business. The place sits in the Yadkin Valley west of the Piedmont’s larger cities, with the Boone name doing most of the quick historical work. If you’re passing through, think old post office, family settlement, and a town that borrowed its name from one of North Carolina’s best-known trailblazers.