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The Cave at Cave-in-Rock State Park, the town namesake of Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. Cave-In-Rock is located in southeastern Hardin County at (37.470050, -88.166297 It is bordered to the south by the Ohio River, which forms the state boundary with Kentucky.
Cave-In-Rock State Park is an Illinois state park, on 204 acres (0.83 km 2), in the town of Cave-in-Rock, Hardin County, Illinois, in the United States. The state park contains the historic Cave-In-Rock, a landmark of the Ohio River. It is maintained by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). [2]
The pair then made their way to Cave-In-Rock, a natural cave on the bluffs above the Illinois bank of the Ohio River—and a stronghold of the river pirate and criminal gang leader Samuel Mason. A posse had been aggressively pursuing them but stopped just short of the cave, on the opposite shore, in Kentucky.
In the late 1790s, James Ford married Susan Miles, a daughter of William Miles, who was a brother of the ferry keeper at Miles Ferry, between the Kentucky and Illinois banks of the Ohio below Cave-in-Rock, near the location of present-day Rosiclare, Illinois. Susan Ford provided her husband with two sons, Philip (November 25, 1800 - November 23 ...
Cave-In-Rock Precinct is located in Hardin County, Illinois, USA.As of the 2020 census, its population was 525. Geography. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Cave-In-Rock Precinct has a total area of 14.41 square miles (37.32 km 2), of which 14.04 square miles (36.36 km 2) (or 97.40%) is land and 0.37 square miles (0.96 km 2) (or 2.60%) is water.
About 150,000 years ago, the area that is now known as Monroe County in southwest Illinois was covered in ice hundreds of feet thick. When the ice melted, the water flowed into fractures in the ...
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The infamous outlaw haunt of Cave-in-Rock on the Ohio River the real-life river pirate Samuel Mason led a gang of river pirates, from 1797-1799 who the legendary Colonel Plug may have been based on Fort Massac, down river, from Cave-in-Rock and above the Cache River which was a U.S. Army frontier post that policed the Ohio River looking for ...