Cave City took its name from the cave within the limits of the town through which runs a small creek and where the water system of the L&N Railroad is located. This sink and creek was originally known as "Sink Hole Spring" and in 1860 was the only water supply of the town. The Cave City post-office was established in January 1860 and Beverly D. Curd was the first post-master. The office was moved from Woodland, where the Piatt home now is about a mile North of Cave City, and the Woodland post-office was established in 1850 with Wilson Ritter as post-master. The late B. B. Duke, Senior, and the late S. S. Martin, who are remembered by most adults of Cave City, cultivated the land where the business section of the town now stands when it was farm land. Both of these men were veterans of the War Between the States. The first mercantile establishment in Cave City was built and occupied by two brothers -- B. D. and H. P. Curd, ancestors of the Curd family in this community. Mr. D. T. Curd states that he was told quite young that when the timbers for this store building were hauled into town from near Flint Knob that corn was being gathered all along where the business section now is. This building was erected on the corner of First and Kirby where the Peoples Bank Building now stands. The second person to enter the mercantile business in Cave City was Judge C. Roberts and Judge Roberts was the first to build a residence in Cave City. He built the home now owned and occupied by Mrs. Fannie Curd Davis and this residence is, therefore, the oldest in Cave City. The S. J. Preston home, now owned by Mrs. Ella Jameson, was built about 1868. The Preston home was built by John White, a contractor of Horse Cave. Just East of the Preston home is the old H. P. Curd home, now owned by the writer, and built about the same time. O. F. Curd, Glasgow, and Mrs. Lizzie Curd Tucker were born in this house. Mrs. Fannie Stark Williams, mother of W. T. Williams, Jeffersonville, and Mrs. Ida Dickey Creel, deceased, conducted a boarding house in this home before her marriage to Mr. Elkanah Dickey. Another old Cave City home is the one owned by Mr. Elkanah Dickey. This residence was built by Thomas Quigley, one of the Knob City Land Company, for a summer home. Mr. Dickey bought this place from H. V. Loving, executor of Thomas Quigley, in the year 1876 and has owned and occupied it continuously ever since. (To be continued) M. Dean Hunt Louisville, KY