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English: This is a high-res .jpg file (from The Tennessee State Library and Archives' Tennessee Virtual Archive) of the map of Kentucky's Mammoth Cave that was drawn from memory in 1842 by Stephen Bishop, an enslaved man who worked as a guide at the Cave. It was then published in 1845 by Morton & Griswold in Alexander Clark Bullitt's "Rambles ...
Tourists inside the cave. The park's mission is stated in its foundation document: [7] The purpose of Mammoth Cave National Park is to preserve, protect, interpret, and study the internationally recognized biological and geologic features and processes associated with the longest known cave system in the world, the park’s diverse forested karst landscape, the Green and Nolin rivers, and ...
Northern end of KY 70 concurrency: Cave City Road Carmichael Road (Official vehicles only) 7.9: 12.7: Green River Ferry Road – Maple Springs Maintenance Road – Ranger Station: Connects to KY 1352: 8.1: 13.0: Mammoth Cave Campground: Campground and Caver's Camp Store: 8.2: 13.2: Mammoth Cave Hotel Road: Mammoth Cave Hotel Entrance: 8.3: 13.4 ...
Northern terminus of KY 2325: 157.617: 253.660: Mammoth Cave Parkway north – Visitor Center/Cave Tours: Main entrance to Mammoth Cave National Park; beginning of concurrency with Mammoth Cave Parkway: 160.117: 257.683: Mammoth Cave Parkway / KY 255 south to I-65 south – Park City: End concurrency with Mammoth Cave Parkway; begin concurrency ...
Houchin's Ferry Road is a secondary roadway located in Edmonson County in west-central Kentucky.County road logs list this road as CR-1004 and CR-1005. Most of the road is maintained by the National Park Service, but portions of the road outside of Mammoth Cave National Park are being maintained by the Edmonson County Road Department.
This concurrency lasts for 1.666 miles (2.681 km) before reaching an intersection in Highland Springs, where KY 255 turns left, while KY 70 turns right to head for Cave City. KY 255's current northern terminus is located near the Sand Cave Trail at the southeastern entrance into the Mammoth Cave National Park; that point marks the end of state ...
Joppa Baptist Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] Joppa Baptist Church was established in 1861 [2] and the present church was built in about 1900. [3] The church is a one-story frame building on a sandstone block ...
Elko was located in the Joppa Ridge area along the present-day Kentucky Route 70 (KY 70) in eastern Edmonson County within the present-day boundaries of Mammoth Cave National Park. The town stood approximately 7.8 miles (12.6 km) east-southeast of Brownsville , the Edmonson County seat , or about 2.9 miles (4.7 km) southwest of the Mammoth Cave ...