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Seneca Caverns is a karst show cave in Germany Valley near Riverton, West Virginia, USA. It has been commercially presented since 1930. It has been commercially presented since 1930. The largest room inside the cave is the Teter Hall, which is 60 feet tall by 60 feet wide in some areas.
Seneca Caverns is a commercial cave discovered in Germany Valley by settler Laven Teter in about 1780, [5] although allegedly the Seneca Indians had utilized the cave before that. It has been commercialized since 1928 and electrified since 1930.
Seneca Caverns, in the Germany Valley; Seneca Rocks and such similar near-vertical Tuscarora quartzite outcrops as Champe Rocks, Nelson Rocks, and Judy Rocks, all structurally parts of the western limb of the Wills Mountain Anticline. Short Mountain Wildlife Management Area; The Smoke Hole (or Smoke Hole Canyon) Smoke Hole Caverns
Seneca Rocks is a large crag and local landmark in Pendleton County in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, United States. The south peak is the only peak inaccessible except by technical rock climbing techniques on the East Coast of the United States.
Seneca Creek is a 19.6-mile-long (31.5 km) [5] tributary of the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River located entirely within Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA. Seneca Creek lies within the Appalachian Mountains, in the Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area of the Monongahela National Forest.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
The national recreation area protects three prominent West Virginia landmarks: Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia (and the highest of the Allegheny Mountains) with a summit elevation of 4,863 feet (1482 m). Seneca Rocks, a 900-foot (270 m) high quartzite crag popular with rock climbers.
Mineral County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland metropolitan area , together with Cumberland, Maryland . As of the 2020 census , the population was 26,938. [ 1 ]