Ramsey County History – Fall 1967: “Case of the Vanishing Historic Site Or What Happened To Carver’s Cave?”
- Year
- 1967
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Creators
- Charles T. Burnley
- Topics
Case of the Vanishing Historic Site Or What Happened To Carver’s Cave?
Author: Charles T. Burnley
A reprint of a 1913 article from the St. Paul Dispatch. The entrance to Carver’s Cave was rediscovered and the cave reopened, with considerable ceremony, in 1913. Jonathan Carver had come across the enormous cavern beneath Dayton’s Bluff in 1767.
Much Native American legend surrounded the cave prior to Carver’s discovery of it, but railroads had closed the entrance around 1885. The city planned to turn the area into a park and the cave into a tourist attraction, but the city’s plans came to nothing.
PDF of Burnley article
- Year
- 1967
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Creators
- Charles T. Burnley
- Topics