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Interior of Fantastic Caverns. Photo by Matt Howry. The cave was owned by the Ku Klux Klan from 1924 to 1930, [7] during which they used the caverns as a meeting place. [8] [9] The caverns were used as a speakeasy during Prohibition. [citation needed] The caverns also hosted music concerts during the 1950s and 1960s. [10]
During the Prohibition period (1920–1933), when sales of alcohol were prohibited in the United States, an illegal speakeasy and dance hall was opened in the cavern. Because of frequent shootings and fights, the caverns became known in the early 1920s as "The Bloody Bucket," and the establishment was eventually closed down by federal agents.
Smoke Hole Caverns (SHC) is a picturesque show cave in Grant County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Draperies in the cave. SHC were opened to the public on 30 May 1940. [1] They are located near the Smoke Hole Canyon from which the cave takes its name. They are located on WV 28 13 km west of Petersburg. Cave formations
U.S. attorneys have responded in court to claims from Sean "Diddy" Combs' lawyers that government agents leaked information, including footage of Combs physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend ...
Two rare photographs of The Beatles playing at the Cavern Club in Liverpool have been discovered. The images were captured in July 1961, over a year before the band released their debut single ...
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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 ...
A rum row was a Prohibition-era term (1920–1933) referring to a line of ships loaded with liquor anchored beyond the maritime limit of the United States. These ships taunted the Eighteenth Amendment ’s prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages . [ 1 ]