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2. Tuckaleechee Caverns - Wikipedia

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   Rock formations in the Tuckaleechee Caverns. Tuckaleechee Caverns (pronunciation ⓘ) is a tourist attraction and the largest and highest rated cave or cavern by AAA east of the Mississippi River. [citation needed] Tuckaleechee runs under the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Townsend, Tennessee. The caverns were used by Cherokees in the ...

3. List of caves in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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   Cherokee Caverns: Knox County: 0.28 miles (0.45 km) 1854 Craighead Caverns: McMinn County: 0.75 miles (1.21 km) c. 1820 Home to the Lost Sea, the largest underground lake in the United States and second largest in the world. [7] Cumberland Caverns: Warren County: 27.7 miles (44.6 km) [8] 1810 Devilstep Hollow Cave: Bledsoe County: 360 feet (110 ...

4. Forbidden Caverns - Wikipedia

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   Forbidden Caverns is a set of caverns and tourist attraction in Sevierville, Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains. Flint from these caverns was used by the Eastern Woodland Indians to create arrowheads, knives, and scrapers. The cave also contains a large wall of rare cave onyx. In the early twentieth century, these caverns were used to make ...

5. List of archaeological sites in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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   In Tennessee, Prehistoric is generally defined as the time between the appearance of the first people in the region (c. 12,000 BC) and the arrival of the first European explorers (c. 1540 AD). The Historic period begins after the arrival of those Europeans and continues to the present.

6. Cades Cove - Wikipedia

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   The fracturing and weathering of the limestone and sandstone in Cades Cove has led to the formation of several caves in the vicinity, the two largest of which are Gregory's Cave and Bull Cave. [3] Bull Cave, at 924 feet (282 m), is the deepest cave in Tennessee. [7] Trilobite and brachiopod fossils have been found in Gregory's Cave. [8]

7. Townsend, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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   Tuckaleechee Caverns – a mile-long cave system that reaches depths of up to 150 feet (46 m) – is also nearby. Just to the north and west of Townsend, the Foothills Parkway is a national parkway that traverses Chilhowee Mountain and offers multiple scenic overlooks at high elevations , with views of the Smokies to the south and the Tennessee ...