Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
July 3, 2007 (742 Parkway: Gatlinburg: 10: Harrisburg Covered Bridge: Harrisburg Covered Bridge: June 10, 1975 (South of Harrisburg off U.S. Route 411 over East Fork of the Little Pigeon River
Blue Spring Cave: White County: 40 miles (64 km) [5] 1989 Longest cave in Tennessee, 10th longest cave in the US, and 44th longest cave in the world. [5] Big Bone Cave: Van Buren County: 9.627 miles (15.493 km) [6] c. 1810 Cherokee Caverns: Knox County: 0.28 miles (0.45 km) 1854 Craighead Caverns: McMinn County: 0.75 miles (1.21 km) c. 1820
Development on the cavern began in 1963 and work on lights and trails continued until opening day, July 3, 1964. [7] The cavern has been opened ever since and is still owned and operated by family members. The Natural Bridge Caverns became a registered US National Natural Landmark in 1971. [8]
This page was last edited on 17 December 2016, at 07:09 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Longhorn Cavern State Park is a state park located in Burnet County, Texas, United States. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is administrator of the facility. The land for Longhorn Cavern State Park was acquired between 1932 and 1937 from private owners. It was dedicated as a state park in 1932 and in 1938 was opened to the public.
Rock formations in the Tuckaleechee Caverns. Tuckaleechee Caverns (pronunciation ⓘ) is a tourist attraction and the largest and highest rated cave or cavern by AAA east of the Mississippi River. [citation needed] Tuckaleechee runs under the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Townsend, Tennessee. The caverns were used by Cherokees in the ...
The 40-by-60-foot (12.2 m × 18.3 m) opening drops down to reveal a cavern some 400 feet (122 m) below. While likely known to native peoples, the cavern was first discovered in modern times by Ammon Billings, a local rancher leading a scouting party of five, west of Hackberry Creek in Edwards County in 1876.