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Luray Caverns, previously Luray Cave, is a cave just west of Luray, Virginia, United States, which has drawn many visitors since its discovery in 1878. The cavern system is adorned with speleothems such as columns, mud flows, stalactites , stalagmites , flowstone , and mirrored pools.
The Caverns at Natural Bridge; Clarks Cave; Dixie Caverns; Endless Caverns; Gap Cave; Grand Caverns, formerly "Weyer's cave" Indian Jim's Cave; Luray Caverns; Melrose Caverns; Natural Tunnel; Ogdens Cave; Shenandoah Caverns; Skyline Caverns; Stay High Cave; Unthanks Cave
Pages in category "Caves of Virginia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Luray Caverns; M. Melrose Caverns and Harrison Farmstead; N.
From the discovery of Luray Caverns in 1878 onward, the favorable attributes of the formations for creating musical tones were well known. One of the earliest references to performances of lithophone music in Luray Caverns comes from the tour led by co-discoverer Andrew Campbell for a group sent by the Smithsonian Institution in 1880.
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Butler Cave- Breathing Cave: 1973: Bath: Private Two major cave systems that contain a 40-foot (12 m) waterfall, a natural bridge, unusually fine crystalline formations, and an underground lake.
Trichopetalum whitei, common name Luray Caverns blind cave millipede, is a rare troglobitic (obligate cavernicolous) millipede of the upper Potomac River drainage in four Virginia counties and three West Virginia counties. It has been recorded from 12 caves across this range, including the Luray Caverns where it was first discovered and described.
It is located in the Appalachian Mountains near Duffield in Scott County, Virginia. The Natural Tunnel, which is up to 200 feet (61 m) wide and 80 feet (24 m) high, [ 1 ] began to form more than a million years ago when groundwater bearing carbonic acid percolated through crevices and slowly dissolved limestone and dolomite bedrock .
The Luray Singing Tower, [10] officially known as the Belle Brown Northcott Memorial, was erected in 1937 in memory of Colonel Theodore Clay Northcott's wife (Northcott was the owner of the Luray Caverns). At 117 feet (36 m) high the Luray Singing Tower contains a carillon of 47 bells from John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, Leicestershire, Great ...