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The “backbone" is another narrow, high cliff, 100 feet high and 6 feet across. It can be intimidating to cross over it, but it’s an adventure as well. There are old carvings in the rock, some ...
Stone fortification and mounds at the Devil's Backbone rock formation. Devil's Backbone is a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River, and is currently situated in Charlestown State Park near Charlestown, Indiana, and across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky.
The primary feature in the preserve is the "Devils Backbone," a 100-foot-high stone ridge barely wide enough for the trail to cross. The preserve was the first dedicated nature preserve in Indiana, and was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1968 under the name "Pine Hills Natural Area." [4]
For a century, it was an active gristmill until technology made it obsolete, and arson destroyed much of it. Prominent features around the site are Fourteen Mile Creek and the Devil's Backbone. The land is now used by the Boy Scouts of America for camping activities such as National Youth Leadership Training and a Webelos Camp. In 2010, part of ...
Devil's Backbone (rock formation), a rock formation near Charlestown, Indiana; Devils Backbone (Highland County, Virginia), a small mountain in Highland County, Virginia; Devil's Backbone State Forest, a state forest located in Shenandoah County, Virginia; Devils Backbone Wilderness, a protected wilderness area in Ozark County, Missouri
Rose Island is an abandoned amusement park near Charlestown, Indiana, situated on a peninsula (the "Devil's Backbone") created by Fourteen Mile Creek emptying into the Ohio River. It was a recreational area known as Fern Grove in the 1880s, mostly used as a church camp. It was so named due to the many ferns that grew there. The Louisville and ...
It was once part of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (INAAP), and was donated in separate parcels to the Indiana state government. In 1993, the state of Indiana was given 859 acres (3.48 km 2), and in 1994 was given an additional 1,125 acres (4.55 km 2) . When the park opened in 1996, it encompassed 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2).
The area of the Devil's Backbone was a favorite of natural scientists such as W.J. McGee, Thomas Macbride, and Samuel Calvin who visited it to study its ancient geologic formations. [2] Edward M. Carr bought 1,200 acres (490 ha) in the 1890s to protect the Backbone Ridge from destruction.