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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TN2_diamond-caverns-historical_Park-City-KY.html
A trip on the Mammoth Cave Railroad wasn't comfortable, and it wasn't posh. It was a means to an end, a destination most of its passengers anticipated with a mixture of excitement and foreboding — the caves.
They came by the thousands, be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TN1_diamond-caverns-historical_Park-City-KY.html
On July 14, 1859, a slave was lowered into a pit discovered on the farm of Jesse Coats. He saw glistening calcite crystals that he thought were diamonds. The first public tour was made by a wedding party on August 19, 1859. Guidebooks were written…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TN0_bells-tavern-historical_Park-City-KY.html
Erected by Wm. Bell, 1830. Stage stop for his lines that brought visitors to Mammoth Cave when first promoted. Famed in U.S. and Europe for elite patrons, cuisine and magic peach and honey brandy for "Joy before the journey's end", until…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I3H_the-forest-returns_Park-City-KY.html
Along this stretch of the Mammoth Cave Railroad, passengers looking out their small passenger coach were greeted with views of open fields. Then, the route of the Mammoth Cave Railroad was not through the forest, but through rural farmland.
For …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I3G_the-trestle-and-the-highway_Park-City-KY.html
Most of Mammoth Cave National Park's landscape is an upland plateau dissected by deep, dry valleys. Here, Doyle Valley posed a significant challenge to the Mammoth Cave Railroad.
In 1886 a trestle leveled the grade. Today the park roadway is bui…