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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.
The caverns were used by the Cherokee as a meeting place for their councils. During the American Civil War, the caves were mined by Confederate soldiers for saltpeter, a commodity necessary to the manufacture of gunpowder. [1] The major cave and lake area was also used as a hideout for moonshiners, especially during the Prohibition era. [2]
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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 ...