What is this new cave - Diamond Caverns?? -------------- Original message from Sandi Gorin <sgorin@glasgow-ky.com>: -------------- > From the Freeborn County Standard, Albert Lea, Manager; Thursday, > July 18, 1878, p. 1. > > "The Glasgow Junction, (KY.) correspondent of the Cincinnati > Commercial says: "Another wonderful cave has recently been discovered > near this town. It has already been explored for a distance of > twenty-three miles in one direction, called the long route, and > sixteen miles in another direction, called the short route. > > "The avenues are very wide, a span of horses can easily be driven > through for a distance of eleven miles. Three rivers, wide and very > deep, are encountered on the long route. One of them is navigable for > fourteen miles, until the passages become too narrow to admit a boat. > This forms the third, or river route, which has to be explored in a boat. > > "This cave is wonderful beyond description, and far surpasses in > grandeur the Mammoth, or any other case ever before discovered. > Several mummified remains have been discovered in one of the large > rooms. They were reposing in stone coffins, rudely constructed, and > from appearances, they may have been in this cave for centuries. They > present every appearance of the Egyptian mummies. > > "Great excitement prevails over this very important discovery. Mr. > Edwin Mortimore, of Chestnut street, Louisville, Ky., purchased three > of the mummies, and has them now in his possession. > > "Maj. George M. Proctor, of Glasgow Junction, Ky., purchased the > remainder of the mummies from the owner of the cave, whose name is > Thomas Kelly. He is, or rather was, a few days ago, a very poor man, > struggling to make a payment on a farm of twenty-four acres, upon > which, by mere accident, the entrance of this wonderful cave was discovered. > > "He realized about $400 from the sale of the mummies, and is now > offered $10,000 cash for the cave. > > "The entrance to the cave is within the town limits, and is only > about two minutes' walk from the depot, which makes it very valuable > indeed, as visitors will not be compelled to travel five miles in a > stage coach, as they do if desirous of visiting Mammoth cave, which > is five miles from the town. In fact, all the celebrated caves of > Kentucky are located in this immediate vicinity. The surface is very > much broken, full of great elevations and depressions, with > everything to indicate that there were volcanic eruptions or violent > upheavals of the earth at some period." > > Note: Major Proctor was the 2nd husband of Mary Louisa Gorin, sister > of Franklin Gorin who owned earlier Mammoth Cave. Her first husband > was Robert Slaughter Bell, son of William Bell who owned Bell's > Tavern in Park City (Glasgow Junction in this article). > > Sandi > > > SCKY Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky > Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren > Sandi's Puzzlers: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message