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    1. Re: Caves
    2. Nancy Hessel
    3. Back to cradads, My husband says as a boy he and his brother use catch them when they were out adventreing, cook them in a tin can, over an open fire ,and they always took some dill along to flavor them with, Early Chefs?. Don & Vicki Stewart wrote: > I do know of this cave and let me try out a few terms here to see if any of you heard of these. Please share if you > know more. > > Headed out of Dawson on Hwy 62, you go past 'one mile hill' and there is a little creek, immediately after the creek > there is a small area just big enough to pull a car off the road. From here you hike up to 'Hunters Bluff' and partway > up the trail you will find the entrance to that cave. It is visible from the road. I even went into the first room of > this cave once but it was some time ago and my memory is vague. The first area was fairly spacious and towards the left > rear there is an area which you can get into but it is lower, like a drop down level. And it is dark once inside, very, > very dark, even with a flashlight. It is not like Mammoth Cave where lights have been strung, and the fear of the > unknown was greater than my curiously. The view from the top of Hunters Bluff is really spectacular and over the years > I have made numerous trips up there. > > There is another cave we used to go check out also. Shortly after that creek there is a road that heads south towards > Claxton. Seems there were some old cabins there by the turn off of 62. If you take this road you will go past Beulah > Hill Church and down by 'French Spring Hollow' there is a 'gravel pit'. We used to collect very colorful rocks from > here. There is another cave here but the entrance is very narrow. I was only by this cave with my parents and don't > remember ever going into this one. > > I would also like to know if anyone knows about "Ice Cave"? I was by a site just a few days ago that mentioned Ice Cave > in Princeton as being a Historical Place. Remember it saying something about the cave being icy year round. > > Coming from Princeton to Dawson just about the end of '2 mile hill' you can see 'Hunters Bluff' from the road just to > the South. I am still fascinated by this place, and would like to know if anyone knows how this came to be called > 'Hunters Bluff.' > I do think this cave here is caving in. > > anyone else know about these places? or have information to share? > Vicki > > ==== KYCALDWE Mailing List ==== > Add your 3 line message here > Reunion News, Genealogy Workshops, Caldwell County Data WebSite > Contact Vicki [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

    04/06/2002 03:39:26