Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Caves and spelunking

Home Sweet Home. For 9,000 years.

Russell Cave (now a national monument), is the oldest rock shelter used regularly for a home in the eastern United States.

New ownership launched an aggressive advertising campaign, and made Ruby Falls into one of Chattanooga’s major tourist attractions.

Claude W. Hibbard was the first naturalist at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park (June 1, 1934 to August 22, 1935).

Mammoth Cave showed the profit potential in cave tourism; it incited a cave war in the 1920s, at the dawn of the automobile vacation era.

In 1925, Floyd Collins, one of the world’s premier cavers, met a tragic and bizarre end in part of what is now known to be Mammoth Cave.

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