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This is a list compiling caves in US state of Tennessee with Wikipedia articles. This is the most known caves of any US state, and is estimated to be around twenty percent of all caves in America. [1] This is due to Tennessee's limestone rich geology, the primary mineral required to form caves. [2] [3]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... List of caves in Tennessee; A. Alexander Cave (cavern) B. Bell Witch Cave; Big Bone Cave;
Location: McMinnville, Tennessee, US: Coordinates: 1]: Length: 27.7 miles (45 km) [2]: Discovery: 1810 by Aaron Higgenbotham: Geology: Monteagle Limestone: Entrances: 3: List of entrances: Higgenbotham Cave, Henshaw Cave, Onyx Curtain: Access: restricted: Show cave opened: July 4th, 1956: Lighting: electric: Website: cumberlandcaverns.com: Cumberland Caverns is a national natural landmark and ...
In Tennessee, Prehistoric is generally defined as the time between the appearance of the first people in the region (c. 12,000 BC) and the arrival of the first European explorers (c. 1540 AD). The Historic period begins after the arrival of those Europeans and continues to the present.
The fracturing and weathering of the limestone and sandstone in Cades Cove has led to the formation of several caves in the vicinity, the two largest of which are Gregory's Cave and Bull Cave. [3] Bull Cave, at 924 feet (282 m), is the deepest cave in Tennessee. [7] Trilobite and brachiopod fossils have been found in Gregory's Cave. [8]
Lookout Mountain Caverns (Lookout Mountain Cave, or Lower Cave) is the second-longest known cave in Hamilton County, Tennessee. [citation needed] Its mapped length of 2.481 miles (3.993 kilometers) places it at 361st on the United States Long Caves List.
The cave is privately owned, and tours are given during the summer months and in October. This cave has been associated with the haunting of the Bell Witch, a period during which the Bell family was allegedly haunted by an entity now referred to as the "Bell Witch." The cave is located on property once owned by the Bell family.
The cave is the 10th longest mapped cave in Tennessee. [4] Big Bone Cave formed in Mississippian Montegeale limestone originally on the western escarpment of the Cumberland Plateau. The cave formed prior to 5.7 ±1.09 Ma based in cosmogenic radionuclide dating of pebbles washed into the Muster Ground room. [5]