Last updated: December 3, 2023
Place
Lehman's Irrigation Ditch (Stop 2)
NPS
In the late 1800s, Absalom Lehman, the first Anglo-American to find the cave, planted an orchard of fruit trees in the open field below the road in front of you. Some of the original apricot trees are still there, bearing fruit for you to sample in the summer and autumn. The wooden structure and narrow ditch below are pieces of the irrigation ditch Lehman built to bring water to his trees from a spring two miles away.