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Mammoth Cave National Park
A Brief History of Mammoth Cave
 
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1. The Archaic Ones
2. Some Say the Bear Chased Houchins
3. The Settlers
4. … And Pass the Ammunition
5. The Great Shake-Up
6. Into the Valley of the Shadow of Death
7. Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar
8. Physician, Heal Thyself
9. Who Would Pay to See a Hole in the Ground?
10. Getting There is Half the Fun
11. Oh, Innkeeper!
12. Steel Rails
13. The German
14. Cave Wars
15. Not Black Gold, But Just As Good
16. I'm Trapped, and Trapped for Life
17. From Purgatory to Paradise
18. The National Park Idea
19. Action At Last
20. Another Day, Another Dollar
21. A New National Park
Locust Grove Cemetery
Places
Whether a sunlit glade or a gloomy chamber, Mammoth Cave's places speak volumes...
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Mules in Houchins Narrows
Collections
The park's collections have tales to tell.
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Did You Know? - Mammoth Cave is the world's longest known cave.

Did You Know?
Mammoth Cave is the world's longest known cave, with more than 392 miles of interconnected passages—so long that if the second and third longest caves in the world were joined together, Mammoth Cave would still be the planet's longest cave and have more than 100 miles left over!
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Last Updated: September 23, 2010 at 08:38 MST