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  1. Old photos of Laurel Caverns

    Old photos before the cave started becoming more commercialized. The first photo is a pictograph from native Americans in the area found on the property.
  2. Visitor now Registered

    i was impressed as a visitor, so now am a member.The only treasures I have ever found are by accident--digging up old coins while gardening in old 18th century towns, at garage/yard sales, and early 20th century stamped post cards from my grandmother after her death.In the vicinity of the...
  3. Cave finds

    I revisited a cave today where I had found 4 old No 12 head stamps a few months ago. I found 8 more head stamps, a pocket knife, a stone scraping tool, and what looks to me like a bone tool. The bracelet came from a park later in the day.
  4. Cave Carvings - What does it mean ?

    Hello guys, I found out a cave with several markings and holes in it which I think has a meaning. It's a very old cave which is not in it's top condition anymore because the old inhabitants used to burn logs etc. in it. Although there are carvings which look very interesting to me. Those are...
  5. Native American Cave, Umpqua N.F. Somewhere up logging road from Swiftwater park?

    When I was hiking the Umpqua trail last year I met a couple who were camping near the Swiftwater park a few miles from Glide Oregon. The girl told me that her father was a lumber jack in these woods 50yrs ago. She gave me the directions for one ancient Indian Village in great detail. The other...
  6. Read this before you enter a cave.

    The National Speleological Society They are a fragile environment without the correct equipment they can be dangerous. So for your sake and the cave’s sake please do some research before you enter into the underground world. By the way it is called Caving. Spelunkers go into the cave with out...
  7. A little different, but interesting and I found it today

    I found this mound while bushwaking.
  8. The lost cave of Pachamama

    Hello All Here is yarn that has been tossed about over many a drinking session. Not just in my den of iniquity but through hundreds of story tellers across the Andes. In my time working for a mining company we worked with various labourers in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chilli. Shamefully...
  9. Rattlesnakes in a cave

    Does anyone have any idea how to rid a cave of rattlesnakes? I found a small cave that is infested with them. From my flashlight beam there are several dozen of them in the cave. The cave is about 4' wide and 5' tall and about 20' deep (horizontally) and there are a few small ledges about 2'...
  10. Mount Beacon NY Revoloutionary War Cave

    North and South Mount Beacon rise to 1,531 and 1,635 feet elevation. It is the highest point between the Catskills and the Atlantic Ocean. The Indians used the mountain as a signal site. North Beacon was chosen by George Washington during the American Revolution to have a rectangular pyramid...
  11. TOCCOA GOLD CAVE

    Hello everyone and thanks in advance for the help!! when I was a kid Me and My dad tracked all over NE Georgia looking for this one back in the 1970'S ,as far as I can tell no one has found it . The story goes like this back in the 1950'S a bus driver by the name Marvin Chambers picked up an old...
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