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When Doctor Samuel Brown, a Transylvania University professor of anatomy, chemistry, and surgery, gave in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1806 the first scientific description of Kentucky's saltpeter production, he drew mainly from the experiences of the Great Saltpetre Cave. [2]: 794 As with most saltpeter caves, the land above the cave is a ...
Saltpeter Cave, in Carter Caves State Resort Park near Olive Hill, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] It has also been known as Swingle's Cave and as Swindell's Cave. It is a limestone cave with 3.05 kilometres (1.90 mi) of measured length. It has served as a saltpeter, or
A saltpetre works or nitrary [1] is a place of production of potassium nitrate or saltpetre used primarily for the manufacture of gunpowder. The saltpeter occurs naturally in certain places like the "Caves of Salnitre" ( Collbató ) known since the Neolithic.
Kingston Saltpeter Cave is the largest cave in Bartow County, Georgia, United States. It was formerly used as a source of saltpeter , the critical oxidizing component of gunpowder , by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Grassy Cove Saltpeter Cave, located on the eastern slope of Brady Mountain, is the sixteenth longest cave in Tennessee [4] and one of the 100 longest caves in the United States. [5] Other caves in the cove include Windlass Cave, Bristow Cave, Mill Cave, Run to the Mill Cave, and Milksick Cave.
Bat Cave and Saltpetre Cave are only open in the summer, and close during the winter hibernation season due to the threat of white nose syndrome, a disease which threatens several endangered species of bats. Cascade Cave is the name for three different caves in the same area and is together the largest cave in the park.
Cherokee natives mined the soil to make saltpeter for gunpowder. In 1819, the year Alabama was admitted to the Union, Jackson County, Alabama, became a county with the county seat at Sauta. [3] Court was held in Sauta Cave. Saltpeter mining continued on occasion across the War of 1812, and the American Civil War. Sauta Cave was one of the ...
Saltpeter Cave: 40CP3 Woodland 1934 McCarty Farm: 40CP4 1934 Irvin Village: 40CP5 Mississippian 1934 Richardson Farm: 40CP8 1934 Harris Farm Site: 40CP9 Mississippian 1934 Wallace Cave: 40CP12 1934 Bullock Cave: 40CP13 1934 Fincastle Site: 40CP19 Chambers Creek Shelter Site: 40CP20 1951