DeSoto Caverns - Childersburg, AL
N 33° 18.357 W 086° 16.672
16S E 567225 N 3685438
DeSoto Caverns was named for the famous Spanish explorer who traveled through the area in 1540.
Waymark Code: WMG4GM
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2013
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The DeSoto Caverns is a standard Alabama Historical Association metal marker with the Alabama flag in an oval at the top. It is located at DeSoto Caverns Park on AL Hwy 76 east of Childersburg. The marker was placed by the Alabama Historical Association.
Marker Name: DeSoto Caverns
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
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Marker Text:
Named for the famous Spanish explorer who traveled through this area in 1540. Over its rich history it offered shelter for native Indians for centuries (a 2000-year-old Woodland Period burial was excavated by archeologists in the mid-1960s), became the first officially recorded cave in the U.S. (1796), and served as a Confederate gunpowder mining site during the Civil War. One of the largest show caves in the southeastern U.S., the main room of the caverns stands 12-stories high and is as large as a football field. The cavern’s onyx-marble stalagmites and stalactites are among the most concentrated accumulations to be found in America.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 1999
Marker Number: None
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